Ray Cronin

Ray Cronin is a Nova Scotia-based writer and curator. Between 2011 and 2015 he worked at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia as both curator and director. He is the founding curator of the Sobey Art Award.
Cronin has written on visual arts for magazines and newspapers for over two decades and is presently the visual arts blogger for Halifax Magazine. He is also the author of Our Maud: The Art, Life and Legacy of Maud Lewis and the ebook Alex Colville: Art and Life.

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Alan Syliboy: Culture is Our Medicine
Ray Cronin

2022 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $22.95
9781554472468 / Trade paper / 64 pp


A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 7

Mi’kmaw painter and multidisciplinary artist Alan Syliboy’s art career began in the early 1970s when an innovative art education program aimed at Indigenous youth took him to New England and introduced him to other artists, art forms and possibilities. But it was by returning home to Millbrook, Nova Scotia, and wrestling with how to create art in and for his small community that he truly began to find his voice. Drawing on the iconography of Mi’kmaw petroglyphs and stories, Syliboy’s work blurs the lines between traditional and contemporary Native art, reaching backward while also making his viewers aware of “time’s rupture and inevitable distortion.”



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Other Books by this Author

Colleen Wolstenholme: Complications
Ray Cronin

2021 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554472147 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Maud Lewis: Creating an Icon
Ray Cronin

2020 / Canadian Art, Biography Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554472062 / Trade paper / 64 pp
John Greer: Hard Thought
Ray Cronin

2019 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554471980 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind
Ray Cronin

2019 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554471881 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting
Ray Cronin

2018 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554471874 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Mary Pratt: Still Light
Ray Cronin

2018 / Canadian Art Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554471805 / Trade paper / 64 pp

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