Into the Wild
Danielle Daoust, Undine Foulds and Sorrel Van Allen

June 25 — July 24, 2022
open Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm


Opening Reception: Saturday, June 25th, 3 — 6pm

Into the Wild is a multidisciplinary exhibition of clay, metal, and fiber. Join Undine Foulds, Danielle Doust, and Sorrel Van Allen in celebration of their completion of the airCRAFT Emerging Artist Residency at the Centre for Craft N.S.

Melding traditional fine craft and contemporary methods of making, Danielle, Undine, and Sorrel seek to rework time-honoured materials, each reimagining potential for colour, texture, and connection. During the nine-month airCRAFT residency they shared space, tools, skills, snacks, and playlists to fuel their experimenting. This work is some of this, some of that, and some of more to come.

Danielle Harris-Daoust

Danielle Harris-Daoust is a Ceramic, Textile and mad artist based in the ancestral unceded Mi’kmaq territory. They graduated from NSCAD  University with a BFA, majoring in Ceramics. Their sculptural work focuses on mental health and her mad identity using a variety of mediums. Danielle is enthusiastic and passionate about art, sustainability, and social justice. Their art reflects all of these subjects using figurative sculpture.

Undine Foulds

Undine Foulds approaches her world like a puzzle, and uses clay, sound, and video to talk about it. She is especially interested in fine craft objects and tools. She is an interdisciplinary artist of Métis and Irish descent, raised in Sinixt territory (interior British Columbia) and currently living in Kjipuktuk/Halifax.

Sorrel Van Allen

Fascinated with developing repetitive patterns, Sorrel uses natural and urban landscapes as inspiration for her jewellery and object designs. Each piece is cut in thin sheet metal and then bent and overlapped, in a similar method to origami, to create unique hollow forms. Patina and surface decoration, in the form of bright pigments, Keum-Boo (attached gold) or subtle oxidizations accentuate the simple elegance found in these repetitive forms.

Sorrel Van Allen is an award-winning jeweller and object maker, with a background in industrial welding and artistic blacksmithing. She received her BFA, major in jewellery design and metalsmithing, from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2020. During her time at NSCAD she participated in an exchange semester at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland, where she focused in computer aided design and craft history. After graduation, Sorrel completed a year-long residential silversmithing program at Bishopsland Educational Trust, Oxfordshire, U.K. Sorrel is currently a Kjipuktuk/Halifax based artist and an active member of the Canadian art jewellery community.

Note for Visitors Regarding Covid-19: All visitors to the gallery must wear a mask. No more than ten visitors in the gallery at any time. Please respect social distancing by keeping 6’ft away from others.