Artist in Residence Program
Through KIRA, Kingsbrae offers an international world class program with accommodation, work space, and inspiration.
Sculptures in the Garden
The Province’s Largest Public Collection featuring a dedicated garden for previous winners of the Canadian Sculpture Competition and More.
Performing Arts
Music, Dance, Comedy, Magic and much more at Atlantic Canada’s largest outdoor Ampitheatre. A Summer full of memories and events awaits.
Art Gallery
Located within the Garden Café, an impressive rotating collection of local talent. 2023 will feature the photography of Tom Butterfield.
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Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts
Kingsbrae Artist-in-Residence Program
“At Kingsbrae we don’t just grown plants, we grow people and our community.” Kingsbrae Founder Lucinda Flemer
Every year KIRA awards 6 artists with a one month residency. Artists are provided with individual studio space, comfortable housing, two prepared meals each day, a stipend and live on a historic property in a beautiful seaside town. Artists should bring all supplies and materials needed for their creative process, to ensure availability of required supplies and provisions. As part of the residency, artists will be asked to engage with the community for up to six hours a week. These engagements will vary based on skills and interest and can include a partnership with Kingsbrae Garden which is located just steps away from the residence and studios.
Applications are open to a range of disciplines and types of artists including but not limited to the visual arts, music/composition, writing, new media, and interdisciplinary arts. Artists from all levels in their career who exhibit a strong professional work ethic and a collaborative attitude are encouraged to apply.
The 2023 Artist in Residence Program successful applicants have been chosen. 2024 process will commence in the fall. Do not hesitate to contact us at kira@kingsbraegarden.com if you have any questions.
To find out more information on how to apply for our artist-in-residence program, events, and more more, please visit the KIRA website:
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https://www.kingsbraeartscentre.com/
The Sculpture Garden at Kingsbrae
The marriage of art and gardens is a natural one and you will find that KBG is home to a growing collection of sculptures. Many of our sculptures, including past winners of the KBG Canadian Sculpture Competition, can be found in the Sculpture Garden. Other sculptures can be found sprinkled around the Garden including metal and glass works by Don Pell, several works on loan from the Beaverbrook Gallery as well as “Dyno”. Dyno was created in 2015 by Aurora Robson and her husband Marshall Coles during an Artist in Residence program at Kingsbrae. The form of Dyno takes its inspiration from the circulation of plastic that is invading our waterways in conjunction with the shrinking population of organic life forms that exist therein. Dyno is constructed out of local plastic debris (old fish boxes) and it is intended to serve as a gentle and suggestive reminder that all of our decisions and actions leave footprints, be they carbon or plastic.
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“Dyno” by Aurora Robson
KIRA Amphitheatre
Kingsbrae Garden was created by John and Lucinda Flemer to preserve and maintain into perpetuity the family’s former estate. Its architecture and gardens have long been an important part of the historic fabric of the community. To further inspire the province of New Brunswick, the local community of Saint Andrews and out of province visitors, a 1200-seat amphitheatre was built and inaugurated in 2018. The KIRA Amphitheatre is proud to contribute to the growth of the Maritime arts and culture sector by hosting a variety of events throughout the summer season, with the beautiful Bay of Fundy as its backdrop.
KIRA Amphitheatre Events and More at:
Art Gallery
In 2023, the Gallery features the photography of Tom Butterfield. The exhibit is called “Charlotte County 2023”. In his words:
The attractive open spaces, combined with the texture of the coast, which is always in a state of flux due to the extreme tides are captivating. The tide differential can be anywhere from 20 to 50 feet. The sparse population, (overwhelmingly friendly), the light, no matter the season due to the geographic location is always special.
Life from an “outsider’s” point of view may look similar but on closer examination for many as a hardscrabble existence. Abandoned farms, tractors, barns, some which are iconic in their isolation; boats, piers, (docks) net floats, fish and lobster traps, the improbable location of some of the boats, some look like Noah’s Ark on the mountaintop. The economy rural, abandoned wooden churches with peeling paint. Some are locked up with no more than a nail acting as a latch. Rusting cars some a hundred years old begs the question will they last another hundred. They become their own sculptures in a gradual state of change.The exhilaration every time I turn on the handle of the house door going out is palpable, the anticipation, the unexpected, no matter how many times I have been “down that road” is forever present; my motto, “rural is plural”. We share to enjoy our plurality.It is the understanding of knowing that there is a difference between terrain and landscape, which our presence creates. Some of the magic of photography is pure escape. A world where a man and machine can create another space entirely.
Show concludes on October 14th, 2023.