2025 Halls Island Artists
Meet the talented artists selected to be part of the Halls Island Artist Residency in 20245.
Barbara Barnes
Barbara is a Canadian actor and poet who lives in London, England as well as spending time in Canada. She works in theatre, film and TV and extensively in as a voice artist in radio dramas, audiobooks, and documentary narration.
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Michael Donohue
Michael (Mike) Donohue is a fibre, crochet artist with a deep-seated reverence for the natural world. Having an early interest in arts and crafts, building and creating, he continued to study and practice traditional “fine art” throughout his life and into higher education. However, it wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic that his practice shifted into to fibre arts.
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Phil Irish
Phil Irish, from Elora, Ontario, makes paintings that are both fierce and beautiful. His practice extends painting into realms of collage, installation, and lens-based practices. His work has been shown at public museums, artist-run-centres, and commercial galleries across Canada.
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Anna Mark
Anna Mark is an educator and poet living in rural Ontario. She has recently published in Prairie Fire, Canadian Literature (forthcoming), CV2, Spadina Literary Review and Pinhole Poetry, and has publications in international anthologies. She has degrees in history, art and education from the Universities of Guelph and Toronto.
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