Peer-review of Kim Morgan’s exhibition

The peer-review of Kim Morgan’s exhibition Blood and Breath, Skin and Dust, will take place on April 28th at 15:30, at EKA in room A502. This presentation is the first review of her practice-based doctoral artistic research titled Examining, Diagnosing, and Creating, Public Art Installations for Complex Spaces.

The peer-reviewers are Dr. Maiju Loukola (Uniarts, Helsinki) and Pan Wendt, Curator (Confederation Arts Gallery, PEI, Canada).

The thesis supervisors are Dr. Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla (Tallinn, Estonia) and Jan Peacock, Professor Emerita (NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada).

Kim Morgan invites you to her public presentation on her exhibition Blood and Breath, Skin and Dust, curated by Susan Gibson Garvey, currently showing at the Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, Feb 1 – May 11, 2025.).

“The exhibition Blood and Breath, Skin and Dust focuses on interdisciplinary artist Kim Morgan’s research and artistic production using electron microscopy to explore materiality and the body. Informed by the experience of vibrant matter at the microscopic level these works offer encounters in human-scaled space and time, and an opportunity to bridge the gap between science, medicine, and art.” (Susan Gibson Garvey, Exhibition Catalogue).

Kim Morgan will discuss her artistic research and method of working that resulted in the exhibition installations, public presentations, and off-site interventions. She will situate this discussion within the larger context of her doctoral thesis. With this body of work and ongoing research and activities, Morgan proposes that site-specific relevant art installations situated in health care facilities have the potential to enhance our understanding of the human body, and shift our experience and relationship to these complex spaces. And, hopefully, to promote a new sense of health, care, and well-being.

The artist would like to thank the following institutions for supporting this exhibition:
The Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada; Arts Nova Scotia; Canada Council for the Art; and Halifax Regional Municipality. Individual works have received support from Artpace San Antonio, Arts Nova Scotia, Dalhousie Medical School, and Ferno Canada.

Kim Morgan is a doctoral student at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, NS, Canada.