Barbara Lounder & Katherine Knight – In Place: Photographs, objects, stories

Observe, Katherine Knight. Document Original.

Barbara Lounder & Katherine Knight
In Place: Photographs, objects, stories

Two Nova Scotia Artists in Dialogue with Landscape and Experience

June 6 – July 25, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: June 6, 12 – 2pm
Screening of Pretend Not to See Me by Katherine Knight: June 5, 7pm
Walkie Talkie with Barbara Lounder: July 25, 1pm
ARTSPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS

In Place: Photographs, objects, stories brings together the work of Katherine Knight and Barbara Lounder at ARTSPLACE Gallery from June 6 to July 25, 2026. Friends, colleagues, and occasional collaborators, the two artists share longstanding creative affinities shaped through years of dialogue and independent practice.

“The exhibition presents photographic, sculptural, and participatory works connected by an interest in landscape, movement, memory, and the traces of human activity,” said Gallery Director Sophie Paskins. “Though produced separately, the works reflect related approaches to observation, experimentation, and storytelling.”

Katherine Knight’s photographs are rooted in the landscapes surrounding her home in Caribou Harbour, Nova Scotia. Working through staged self-portraiture, Knight places figures within environments marked by weather, industry, ecological change, and history. A figure in white studies winter pack ice on the horizon. Another lies wrapped in surplus winter gear at the edge of a damaged forest. Elsewhere, the artist appears bird-like in a tidal salt marsh. Across the series, land and sea become spaces where imagination and lived experience intersect.

Knight’s practice has been shaped by formative experiences at NSCAD and by documentary approaches to photography and filmmaking. Her work explores landscape alongside broader questions of resilience, mortality, creativity, and adaptation.

Barbara Lounder presents three works originally created for walking art events: “Guided Walking,” “Writing Walking Sticks,” and “Carrier.” This marks the first time these projects have been exhibited in a gallery setting. Combining sculptural objects, documentary photographs, costumes, and participatory elements, the works examine walking as both physical movement and creative methodology.

Lounder’s installations invite viewers to consider attention, language, cooperation, and bodily experience. Walking sticks fitted with alphabet stamps produce temporary texts through movement, while “Guided Walking” pairs green walking sticks with blue eye covers to create nonvisual sensory experiences grounded in trust and environmental awareness.

Together, the exhibition considers how places are shaped through action, memory, and repeated encounters over time.

Carrier, Barbara Lounder. Document original.

About the Artists

Katherine Knight is an artist and filmmaker recognized for her landscape-based photographic works and documentary films about Canadian artists. Knight’s award-winning films, produced by Site Media Inc., co-founded by David Craig and Katherine Knight in 2006, have screened worldwide through festivals, television broadcast, and media collections. In 2000 Knight received the Duke and Duchess of York Prize for excellence in photography from the Canada Council for the Arts. Knight’s 2025 book, BOAT: photographs by Katherine Knight, co published by WORK BOOK and Goose Lane Editions, is an instant classic of life and culture in Atlantic Canada. Knight’s photographic works are in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Museum London, Global Affairs Canada, Ottawa Art Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Surrey Art Gallery, and the Canada Council Art Bank. Knight is a Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University and, after two decades of summer residence, lives full time in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

www.katherineknight.ca
www.sitemedia.ca
Instagram @katherine_m_knight

Barbara Lounder is an artist living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her work has been presented in galleries and festivals in Canada, the US, England, Finland, Germany, Bulgaria, Poland and New Zealand. She has been an artist and writer in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Open Studio in Toronto, Full Tilt in McIvers NF, the Kommandantenhaus in Dilsberg, Germany, and Jampolis Cottage in Avonport NS. The recipient of many awards and grants, Lounder is a founding member of the Halifax artists’ cooperative gallery Hermes, and of the research creation collaborative group Narratives in Space and Time Society (NiSTS). She is a member of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia and Visual Arts Nova Scotia. Art works by her are in private collections, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Arts Nova Scotia Art Bank, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Carleton University Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Art Acquisition for the Valued Assets Program, Government of Canada. In addition to her studio practice, Lounder has a distinguished record as an educator and publishes and speaks on topics related to contemporary art, walking and other aspects of mobility, social activism and art education.

barbaralounder@icloud.com
www.barbaralounder.ca
www.narrativesinspaceandtime.ca
Instagram @coronaiwalker

Also On View

Cheryl Mootoo: Inscape
June 6 – July 25, 2026

Sage Sidley: Peripheral Visions
June 6 – July 25, 2026

Anne Launcelot: We Are Nova Scotia
June 6 – July 25, 2026

Opening Receptions: June 6, 12 – 2pm

About ARTSPLACE

ARTSPLACE is a public Art Gallery that is operated by the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council, a registered charitable, community organization dedicated to encouraging and promoting the arts. Supported through the Province of Nova Scotia and the Canada Council for the Arts.

ARTSPLACE Gallery
396 St. George Street, Box 534
Annapolis Royal, NS B0S 1A0
www.arcac.ca
admin@arcac.ca
(902) 532-7069

Facebook @ARTSPLACEGallery
Instagram @arcac.artsplace

Accessibility:
ARTSPLACE Gallery has one accessible parking space at the front of the building and a ramped entrance. The Main, Library, and Mym Galleries, as well as the washroom, are all wheelchair accessible on one level. The Chapel Gallery is wheelchair accessible via an external ramp and is located on a lower level than the main galleries. The upstairs programming space is accessible by stairs only.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of Nova Scotia through the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage.