Snail Trails
Eryn Foster

June 2 — June 30, 2024
open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm or by appointment

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1st, 2—5pm

Artist Talk: Sunday, June 30th at 1pm

These drawings/studies are part of a larger project that explore the movements of snails. For the past several years Eryn Foster has been documenting the migratory trails of "Littorina Littorea" across beaches in Nova Scotia. She uses the snails' earth-based drawings in the sand as inspiration for her own explorations in line, shape and abstraction. 

Eryn Foster is an interdisciplinary artist based in K’jipuktuk/Halifax. She also works as a curator, filmmaker, educator, and arts consultant. Foster received her BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and her MFA from the University of Guelph. Over the past two decades she has presented her work at numerous artist-run centres, public galleries and museums as well as ongoing exhibitions at Hermes Gallery, in Halifax, where she is a member of the collective. She has received several awards and grants for her work including ones from the Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Nova Scotia. For the past 15 years she has worked as regular part-time faculty at NSCAD University where she teaches in the Department of Fine Arts.

She is currently working on a long-term art/science research project in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Kelly, a McMaster University Professor who studies genetic programming, artificial life, and nature-inspired computing in robotics. Most recently she premiered her film Celestial Queer: The Life, Work and Wonder of James MacSwain (in collaboration with her friend Sue Johnson) at the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF) where they were awarded the 2023 prize for Best Atlantic Feature Documentary. When not working on her creative endeavours, Foster is involved with community arts advocacy organizations including Visual Arts Nova Scotia and CARFAC Maritimes.