For visitors to downtown Halifax, or residents even, this shopping district with great indie shops and restaurants is a short pleasant stroll from Alderney Landing. Accessible by the scenic and affordable public transit ferry that crosses the Halifax harbour, this makes for a fun excursion that doesn't require a car!
The Dart Gallery is currently featuring a beautiful show of abstract work by Amy Corbett, "Comfort Item", until May 13th, and on May 15th there will be an opening for a group show of pieces inspired by everything Jim Henson, which sounds just awesome!
Here are the pics of the work, which are also in this album on Facebook. I managed to get photos of everything except 2 mini white owls, a chicken figurine and an alpaca figurine. All of these pieces are mid-fire stoneware (cone 6) except for a couple of earthenware figurines as noted. All of the 'animal' bowls are food safe, microwave safe and dishwasher safe although hand washing is recommended.
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| Sullivan's Pond Geese! Inspired by the much loved geese of Sullivan's Pond in Dartmouth... the honking one is saying "What are we doing here, this isn't Sullivan's Pond! Let's Go!" |
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| Getting closer to migrating to Dartmouth... |
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| Goose Close Up |
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| Rabbits! The Dart Gallery's owner, Jane, has a sweet, inspiring, Holland Lop rabbit named Huxley who usually hangs out at the gallery with her. It was fun to make some new rabbits & "rabbitware" for the space; there's a large bowl, a smaller bowl, 5 small figurines and 2 larger figurines. |
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| Close up of large rabbit bowl |
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| A Brown Rabbit bowl - this one is about half the size of the blue/brown one |
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| A pair of real rabbits that appeared and chased each other all over the woods after I photographed the brown rabbit bowl! Hopefully an auspicious omen! |
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| Small Rabbit figurines |
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| Black Rabbit close up |
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| Large Rabbit figurine with a smaller one for scale. |
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| Beaver figurines |
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| Beaver bowl |
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| Same bowl, top view |
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| Mallard Bowl |
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| Owl Bowl |
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| Same bowl, side view |
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| Chickadee Figurine |
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| Turtle Figurine |
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| Small turtle figurine |
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| Fox figurines - I left 2 standing and 2 sitting ones at Dart Gallery. |
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| Squirrel figurines: Dart has the large one, the mini one, and the 2 with spirals on their haunches (the ones beside and below the largest squirrel) |
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| Squirrel figurine close up |
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| Sheep Figurines - there are 3 at Dart Gallery |
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| "Larger" figurines each of these is at Dart |
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| Larger fox figurine close up, I'm guessing it's around 7" tall? |
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| Brown bear figurine |
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| Polar Bear Figurine |
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| Wolf Figurine |
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| Piping Plover Figurine - earthenware |
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| Large Puffin Figurine |
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| Owl Figurine |
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| Large Beaver figurine with one of the other figurines for scale |
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| Side view |
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| Doberman Figurine |
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| Shih Tzu Figurine |
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| Brown and White Dog Figurine |
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| Sled Dog Figurine |
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| Horse Figurine |
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| Ox Figurine |
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| Earthenware Rooster Figurine |
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| Stoneware Rooster Figurine |
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| Monkey Figurine - a bunch of the figurines in this group are also Chinese Astrology animals |
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| Rat Figurine |
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| Snake Figurine |
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| Dragon Figurine |
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| Tiger Figurine |
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| Elephant Figurines |
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| Grey and White Cat Figurine |
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| Black and White Cat Figurine |
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| Calico Cat Figurine |
