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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For Immediate Release
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gwaii Haanas – Islands and Sacred Sites
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">on view at Kelowna Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joice M. Hall: GWAII HAANAS – Islands and Sacred Sites<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 20 to April 1, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 17, 2018 – Kelowna, BC:</span></b><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;font-style:normal">
</span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">A new exhibition of work by Kelowna-based artist Joice M. Hall may have visitors feeling as if they have stepped out of the Gallery and into the moss-draped cedar and
Sitka spruce forests of Haida Gwaii.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Hall’s exhibition entitled
<i>Gwaii Haanas – Islands and Sacred Sites</i> was inspired by a two-week artist’s residency in Haida Gwaii that she was selected for in 2016. The residency was presented
<em><span style="font-style:normal">by the Haida Gwaii Museum in collaboration with Gwaii Haanas/Parks Canada.</span></em></span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The exhibition features an 18-foot-long painting installation, comprised of fourteen separate works. Together they form a composite
landscape that celebrates the ocean, forest, and marine life she saw while being guided around Gwaii Haanas. Hall referenced 1,600 digital photographs that she took during her visit to create the high-realism paintings in the exhibition.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Hall was also deeply moved by the five historic Haida heritage sites she visited, and what resonated with her the most were the
mortuary poles around the longhouse sites at S’<u>G</u>ang Gwaay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Anthony Island. These centuries-old carved poles stretch over twenty feet into the sky and depict maps of Haida lives and lineages. Hall chose to paint five of
these poles and place them within the composition of her installation, to act as spirits watching over the longhouse sites.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The goal of the Gwaii Haanas residency is to connect artists to this unique place, and then further to connect, through these artists,
Gwaii Haanas to Canada and the greater world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">GWAII HAANAS – Islands and Sacred Sites</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">
will give Gallery visitors that opportunity. The exhibition opens on January 20 and runs through to April 1, 2018.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Hall spent most of her career based in Calgary before moving to Kelowna in 1999. She studied at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary.
She has exhibited her work in galleries across Canada, and in Mexico. In 2010, the Kelowna Art Gallery organized a full-scale survey of Hall’s work, entitled
<i>Surreal. Real. Ideal: The Art of Joice M. Hall</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibition will be held on Friday, January 19, 2018, from 7 to 9 pm. This is a free event, open
to Gallery members and guests, by invitation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Kelowna Art Gallery is located at 1315 Water Street in downtown Kelowna. For more information about current exhibitions, public programming
or special events, please visit the Kelowna Art Gallery online at <a href="http://www.kelownaartgallery.com">
www.kelownaartgallery.com</a> or call 250-762-2226.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">[Image credits]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joice M. Hall in her studio, 2017.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joice M. Hall, <i>Longhouse Site 5/S<u>G</u>ang Gwaay</i> (detail), 2017, acrylic on stretched canvas, 36 x 75 in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">For more information, to schedule an interview with artist Joice M. Hall, to access a preview of the exhibition, or for additional
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