Sept 28

Annette MacLellan

Annette MacLellan (she/her) is a 24 year old artist originally from Ball’s Creek, Nova Scotia. She currently studies Interdisciplinary Arts at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She works with collage, mixed media, film, digital art and occasionally sculpture/installation/textiles. Her work is often inspired by themes of home, childhood, anxiety and community. She explores the world through simplistic ‘childlike’ wonder and curiosity.

“I love collage because it allows me to take existing information, dissect it, transform it, and create something completely new. I love film for similar reasons. I enjoy the process of creating; but for me, it all comes together in the edit. I adore trying new things, and constantly learning from my mentors and peers, both at NSCAD; as well as my friends and family at home in Cape Breton.”

My Dad's Garden

Artist Project

What does it mean to care? Tending to something beautiful, helping it grow. Maybe the answer will never be found… or maybe it lays underneath the soil of my dad’s garden

Lumiere Arts Festival 2024 // The Art of Caring

Lumiere Arts Festival invites artists and community members to reflect on the concept of care.

In a polarized landscape, care can lap like a brook, or pound like large waves crashing ashore. To care is to tend, to root, to rebel, to share and to endure. This year, the festival is encouraging artists to submit works rooted in solidarity, with community building as resistance, that explores the need to care for ourselves, others, and the earth, both locally and globally. The Lumiere Arts Festival makes space for joy, contemporary art, and meaningful dialogue.

Land Acknowledgement

Lumière Arts Festival, on behalf of the board, the artists, and the communities we represent, acknowledges that we work, live and play in the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people, in Unama’ki Cape Breton, who have stewarded these lands since time immemorial.

We are grateful not only for the strong and ongoing stewardship of these lands we call home, but also for the stories, music, and art that Mi’kmaq people continue to create and share, carrying ancestral voices, sacred teachings, and legacies of interconnectedness and resilience forward into the present and on to the future.

We aspire to reflect that sense of connection between past and present in our festival. We are inspired by L’nu artists to foster connection and self-reflection in our work. We will work to ensure that art is accessible, inclusive, and integrated into public spaces so that we can share our collective stories, recognizing the challenges of our past and imagining brighter futures.

We are all Treaty people.