Carol Kennedy

Carol Kennedy is an award winning photographer living and working in Cape Breton. Her Photographs have been exhibited in Canada, the U.S., England and Switzerland in both group and solo exhibits over the past 30 years. She first studied photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago.

Her work is included in the collections of the Art Galleries of Nova Scotia and Ontario , the Canada Council Art Bank, The Nova Scotia Art Bank, the National Film Board, the Jane Corkin Gallery, and many private collections.

She is currently the Photography Editor of Pottersfield Portfolio and her work is featured in the 1999 Winter issue and the 2002 Fall issue. She has taken the portraits of many of Nova Scotia’s finest entertainers including Rita MacNeil, Natalie MacMaster, the Rankin Family and Rawlins Cross. In 1997, she received a nomination for a Juno Award for CD Photography, and in 1998, received the East Coast Music Award for Best CD/Cassette Graphic Design and in 2000 received the Photographer of the Year Award.

She is well known for her unique, eclectic portraits, her sensual nudes and moody landscapes.

Gordon Kennedy

With different shapes, forms and colours, I try to express ideas and emotions. My intention is to touch and excite the imagination. Until we can imagine a possibility it is not likely to happen. For me the idea is the most important part of the process, rather than the result. With any luck the tangible piece will faithfully represent the idea, usually with some twist that the process itself introduces. In this way my art happens.

I attended Vancouver Art School, now called the Emily Carr College of Art, in the early 70′s, where I studied painting and metal sculpture. After graduating I traveled to Europe and then returned to Vancouver and set up a studio. Feeling the need for change, I moved to Toronto in 1978. A studio in a downtown warehouse enabled me to create larger work and I began experimenting with pouring paint onto canvases stretched on the floor. In these works the interaction of colour became my main focus. It was during this time that I met my wife Carol. When she became pregnant we started looking for a place in the country outside Toronto. It turned out to be Cape Breton. At this time I was beginning to feel a need for more structure in my work. On our arrival in Cape Breton I fell in love with the landscape and so I worked in that direction for a number of years.

Several years ago, I responded to the ever-present need to change and began to experiment and study three-dimensional forms which has led to my most recent work, sculptures of metal, fiberglass and cement.

There have been many shifts in my work over the years but the basic underlying drive remains the same; that is to touch and excite the imagination.