The gallery is pleased to present “About Trees,” our sixth solo exhibition of work by Canadian photographer Scott Conarroe. “About Trees” is a selection of photographs from Conarroe’s archive of images, many secondary to his dedicated projects, which feature a strong focus on trees. The selected works look toward concepts of nature/nurture, suppleness, stubbornness, and growth; and how the journey from roots to reaching is universal.

Conarroe has an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work (US), Villa Sträuli (CH), and FLACC (BE), and a Canadian Armed Forces Civilian Artist in the Arctic. He has received numerous awards including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship.His works are in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and Stadt Zürich. Conarroe lives in Bern, Switzerland.

Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present Hank Bull’s Natural Language, on display in our Reading Room Gallery from Saturday, September 14 to Saturday, October 12. Natural Language is the launch of two new projects, a suite of photographs and a limited-edition print work.

In Book Series, pieces of scrap lumber are made to resemble books and photographed against a neutral background. Devoid of text, these “books” are nevertheless open to interpretation. Their titles refer to history, architecture, law, learning and so on. They are arranged or stacked in ways that also suggest buildings, towers, temples or monuments, all while retaining their identity as blocks of wood.

Natural Language is a box of twenty-six postcards, one for each letter of the alphabet. The letters were found inscribed in the branches of trees in the forest. It took years of intermittent searching to find and photograph all twenty-six.