{"id":495,"date":"2016-11-25T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listagil.is\/?p=495"},"modified":"2016-11-28T12:29:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:29:35","slug":"495","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Familiar Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veri\u00f0 velkomin \u00e1 opi\u00f0 h\u00fas undir yfirskriftinni ” Familiar Strangers” \u00ed Deiglunni laugardaginn 26. n\u00f3vember kl. 14 – 17. Um er a\u00f0 r\u00e6\u00f0a afrakstur vinnustofudvalar gestalistamanns Gilf\u00e9lagsins, Pamela Swainson.
\nSwainson f\u00e6ddist \u00ed Manitoba \u00ed Kanada og er afkomandi f\u00f3lks sem yfirgaf \u00cdsland \u00ed kringum aldam\u00f3tin 1900. H\u00fan \u00e1 st\u00f3ran fr\u00e6ndgar\u00f0 b\u00e6\u00f0i \u00e1 \u00cdslandi og vestanhafs og \u00ed verkum s\u00ednum veltir h\u00fan fyrir s\u00e9r spurningum um \u00fej\u00f3\u00f0flutninga: Hver eru \u00e1hrifin \u00e1 tengingu vi\u00f0 sta\u00f0, land, menningu og fj\u00f6lskyldu? Hva\u00f0 geymist \u00ed s\u00e1linni og flyst \u00e1 milli kynsl\u00f3\u00f0a? Sj\u00f3nr\u00e6nn k\u00f6nnunarlei\u00f0angur Swainson um tilfinningar, \u00e1f\u00f6ll og uppg\u00f6tvanir og tengsl vi\u00f0 fornar lendur, hefur sta\u00f0i\u00f0 yfir s\u00ed\u00f0an h\u00fan heims\u00f3tti \u00cdsland fyrst \u00e1ri\u00f0 2006.
\n\u00cd Deiglunni s\u00fdnir h\u00fan einnig nokkur m\u00e1lverk \u00fear sem h\u00fan er a\u00f0 f\u00e1st vi\u00f0 birtuna og landslag vi\u00f0 Akureyri.
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Pamela Swainson from Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada<\/p>\n

Familiar Strangers<\/p>\n

Human migrations\u2014what is the impact on our attachment to place, land, culture or family? What does our psyche hold through generations? I have spent the month of November gathering experiences and stories, past and present. I have begun my visual narrative of emotions, losses and discoveries of connection.<\/p>\n

Some of the work will be on display for the Open Studio November 26 & 27.<\/p>\n

As a descendant of peoples who left Iceland around the turn of the last century, this project found me when I made my first trip here in 2006.<\/p>\n

I will also have a few paintings I have done exploring the light and scenery of Akureyri.<\/p>\n

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Pamela Swainson is the Artist in the residency this month.
\nShe was born in Manitoba, Canada. Her family is descended from Icelandic immigrants. At a young age, she moved to eastern Canada to attend the Fine Arts Program at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n

As with many women, her art practice was shared with a career in health care and family commitments. Since 2007, she has grown her art practice resulting in a number of one person and group shows, private and public commissions. She works in oil, watercolour and drawing mediums.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Her work often reflects her attachment to place, local living, and the human relationship to the natural world. She lives on a small farm near Earltown, in the Cobequid Mountains of Nova Scotia with her husband.<\/p>\n

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Veri\u00f0 velkomin \u00e1 opi\u00f0 h\u00fas undir yfirskriftinni ” Familiar Strangers” \u00ed Deiglunni laugardaginn 26. n\u00f3vember kl. 14 – 17. Um er a\u00f0 r\u00e6\u00f0a afrakstur vinnustofudvalar gestalistamanns Gilf\u00e9lagsins, Pamela Swainson. Swainson f\u00e6ddist \u00ed Manitoba \u00ed Kanada og er afkomandi...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}