Jane Walker
Jane Walker’s visual art practice and research is grounded in sustainable art practice in rural contexts, craft-based research methodologies, and making as a tool for sharing.
Within her practice she experiments with rug hooking and textiles in social contexts. In 2017, she produced a solo exhibition of large-scale works rug-hooked with steel wool, Main Lands and Long Winters commissioned by The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, and islandness, a social practice project with Shetland-based artist, Vivian Ross-Smith supported by Eastern Edge. Jane is an advocate for place-based supports for rural visual arts through her work on the Bonavista peninsula with the Bonavista Biennale and the development of a new contemporary artspace in Port Union. She has exhibited her work in Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Singapore. Jane lives and works in beautiful Bonavista.
Teresa Kachanoski
(Past Chair)
Teresa Kachanoski was born and raised in the Province of Quebec where she began her art practice and training in the 70’s. Her interests have ranged from life drawing and landscape painting to various printmaking techniques. She completed a BFA in 2005 at the University of Alberta. She has lived in five other provinces before settling in Newfoundland & Labrador where she finds inspiration in the rugged terrain and dramatic coastline. She is in her second term as chair of VANL and serves on the Arts Advisory committee for the City of St.John’s and the Acquisitions Committee for The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery. She is represented by the Leyton Gallery of Fine Art in St.John’s NL.
Hillary Winter
Hillary Winter was born, raised and currently resides in St. John’s, NL. She graduated from Memorial University’s Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in 2008 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, focusing in Photography and Printmaking. Her current work focuses on autobiographical prose combined with darkroom photography, and her work has been exhibited across Newfoundland, Ontario, Manitoba and England. Hillary is co-founder and Chair of Pick-Me-Up Artists’ Collective.