Meet Our Gallery TEAM
JANE WALKER
Gallery Director
Jane Walker is a visual artist and arts administrator from Newfoundland. She has been involved in the visual arts initiatives across the province including Union House Arts, VANL-CARFAC, Bonavista Biennale, Quidi Vidi Village Artisan Studios and Business and Arts NL. Since 2024, she has served as Director of Grenfell Art Gallery and Curator of the Grenfell Campus Permanent Collection.
BRAYDEN PITTMAN
Gallery Assistant / Communications Coordinator
Experiential Learning Student
Brayden is an audiovisual artist from Wesleyville, Newfoundland, currently in their third year of their Visual Arts BFA. Their practice is focused on combinations of painting, drawing and collage with a critical background. Exploring sentimental imagery alongside online practices cultivated since childhood, Brayden explores the tension between the literal & abstract from the perspective of a queer person raised in rural Newfoundland.
After summer internships at The REACH (Wesleyville) and Union House Arts (Port Union), Brayden has developed a passion for criticism & curation, driving their goal to aid contemporary art’s presence in smaller cultural centres through their role in arts administration.
margaret cadigan
Gallery Assistant
Experiential Learning Student
Margaret is a multidisciplinary artist from the east coast of Newfoundland. She is currently in her 4th year of her BFA (Visual Arts) at Grenfell Campus. She enjoys painting, drawing and sculpture but has a special love for textile arts. Her art practice explores relationships between humanity and nature while investigating environmental issues. She is currently researching natural dye processes and embracing the Slow Movement to reduce the environmental impact of her practice. She hopes to use her experience at the gallery to explore ways of sharing art with others through curation and arts administration.
Abby strowbridge
Gallery & Collection Assistant
MUCEP
Abby is an Artist currently in the third year of her BFA at Grenfell Campus. Her practice is very experimental, but some recurring themes are societal pressures, the passing of time, and how bodies are perceived by oneself. She is interested in all art mediums, but has a special place in her heart for ceramics, because of the endless possibilities and experimentation within the medium. She loves community engagement and working with other artists! She is interested in curation and hopes to use her experience from the Grenfell Art Gallery to help create more opportunities for artists in the future.
Emerson eagles
Gallery & Collection Assistant
MUCEP
Emerson is an interdisciplinary artist from Nova Scotia, who is currently in her 3rd year of their BFA at Memorial University Grenfell campus. Their practice involves making work that relates to their home life growing up in the countryside, as well as their experience within the education system as a neurodivergent individual. Emerson's interest in gallery work specifically, is focused towards professional art packing and transporting.
Beau Mouland
Gallery & Collection Assistant / Communications Coordinator
MUCEP
Beau is a historical researcher in her fourth year completing a BA in Historical Studies with a minor in Art history. Although she is not an artist, she has a history of museum work and began work with the Grenfell art gallery to gain more experience in storing and displaying various precious works. Beau aims to continue this work following the completion of her degree and has her sights set on pursuing a career in curatorial and archival work.
Camryn Nichols
Gallery Assistant & Technician / Communications Coordinator
MUCEP
Camryn is an artist hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, and is in their 4th year of study as a Visual Arts Major. Currently, he is exploring Scenic Art in theatre as a career option, utilizing his previous interest in the physicality of mediums in response to physical disability as the lens in which he works. After taking a workshop for Gallery Technical work at the Society of Northern Alberta Printmakers (SNAP), he gained a new love for behind the scenes work in gallery spaces, and hopes to take this experience at the Grenfell Art Gallery with him through his future careers.