Maggie Quinn Art – Spring Garden of Artists on Chaleur Bay

by Margaret Sharon Olscamp Dunlop NB Canada Tuesday June 11 2024

Almost six month ago, on December 14, 2023, I wrote the following:

By August 1st, 2023 I began my three month art-making that would result in an opening reception on October 31 and an exhibit that would last at least a month.

During those first days I explored how humans erect fences and build borders. The first pieces I worked on were meant to illustrate how individual culture does or doesn’t fit into the social institutions that define what an artist is. I’m no sure exactly when I realized it but this first group was no expressing what I was trying to say. I had to get back to the garden. I put this group of work away, unfinished. My next step was to bring out drawings I had done before Covid and 911 and other events as far back as 1989, which left me with over three decades of soul-straining questions about what it means to be human. I had an old piece of work for every one of those thirty-three years after 1989. These would be the pieces I would repurpose into new pieces of art.

This exhibit, ‘Don’t Forget You’re Human’ is me examining my own life as a human artist through that repurposed work.