Grace Nickel’s Ceramic Memorial to Point Pleasant Park. April 11 to May 25, 2008, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Devastatus Rememorari, 2008, dimensions 2 m × 3.5 m × 7.5 m,
porcelain (with terra sigillata, oxide, and glaze), salt.
- Text and photographs from the exhibition catalogue
- Foreword – Susan MacAlpine Foshay, Director, Mary E. Black Gallery
- Devastatus Rememorari – Sandra Alfoldy PhD
- Artist’s Statement – Grace Nickel
- Biography – Grace Nickel
- Credits
- ©Mary E. Black Gallery
- Photography: Steve Farmer
- Text: Sandra Alfoldy, Grace Nickel, Susan MacAlpine Foshay
- Design: Jackie Kelly
- Sponsors
- Elizabeth and Darrel Pink in honour of Anne Mullaly and Ruth Pink
- NSCAD University
- Manitoba Arts Council
- Press
- Elissa Barnard, “Seeing the forest for the trees: Nickel’s elegy of ceramics, salt, text, reflects on ruin of Juan, reconstruction,” in The Chronicle Herald, Thursday, May 22, 2008.
Devastatus Rememorari is dedicated to my dear friend Sheena Lennox 1965–2007. The spirit of her strength and courage will stay with me always. Grace Nickel.