Dawn Steeves (she/her) is a New Brunswick painter and visual artist whose work is included in numerous corporate and private collections in Canada and the US. She is the recipient of four grants from ArtsNB, and a Charlotte Glenncross Scholarship. In 2021 she completed a residency at Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts (KIRA) in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Her work has exhibited at The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton NB, The Andrew & Laura McCain Gallery, Florenceville-Bristol NB, and the Saint John Arts Centre, Saint John NB.
Present the Past project
My objective is to document my observations during the month I spend in the Bruno Bobak Artist Residency, and to preserve memories of that experience in a meaningful way through drawing and painting.
Objects from the Beaverbrook Collection will be present in the studio, which I will paint from as part of my daily practice. During interactions with visitors and as I wander through other exhibitions in the Gallery, the compositions I capture on my cell phone will be used as references for paintings also. I will obtain consent from any humans who might become subjects.
Each oil painting is worked in layers over several days. I will have many paintings at different stages of development at a time, hung on the walls for visitors to observe. One who visits several times during the month will see the working process and the progression of the project.
Dawn Steeves
You can visit Dawn in the Bruno Bobak Artist-in-Residence studio during gallery hours.
