ST. JOHNS, CANADA.- Intangible Evidence offers a glimpse of innovative artistic projects that explore the documentation of the latent meanings and hidden stories that reside within historical objects and archival representations. Bringing creative practice to bear on objects drawn from within museum and archive collections of The Rooms, the artists involved in the exhibition have also brought their unique experiences, backgrounds, and obsessions that inevitably infuse the creative process. Collaboratively, the work of Michael Crummey, Sara Graham, Andy Jones, Alison Norlen, and Graeme Patterson represents an interdisciplinary dialogue that crosses genres of drawing, animation, installation, audio, and text, illuminating the inevitable fluidity of the imagination of history and memory, and the lines of fact and fiction. Reflecting the diversity of creative process as well as artistic forms of cultural research, the exhibition suggests directions for new spaces for artistic creation, innovation, and debate.

Developed through the artist residencies with The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Intangible Evidence uses varying media to explore the documentation of the meanings and stories that lie beyond the historical objects and archival documents. This exhibit crosses the genres of drawing, animation, installation, audio, and text, highlighting the blurred lines of history and memory, fact and fiction, official and vernacular cultures. Reflecting the diversity of creative practice as well as artistic forms of cultural research, the unique experiences of each artist inevitably infuse and have shaped both their selection of artifacts, as well as the work they have developed in response those artifacts.

Michael Crummey - Michael Crummey is a full-time writer living in St. John’s. His first novel, River Thieves, was nominated for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, and won the Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Winterset Award. He has written three books of poetry, a collection of stories and, with photographer Greg Locke, published Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation in 2004. His most recent novel, The Wreckage, was nominated for the Rogers/Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Bennington Gate Fiction Award.

Sara Graham - Artist Sara Graham's work has centered on the exploration of geographic fictions, blurring spaces within and between the disciplines of art, architecture, urban design and geography. Her interest lies in the philosophical, practical and political aspects of the design, depiction and operation of cities through investigation into general and specific urban, exurban and systems cartographies and topologies. Graham has exhibited across Canada with recent exhibitions at: The New Gallery, Calgary with Bromley's Bluff; YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto with Surrealestate; Articule, Montreal with Civic Liberties; Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, Gridding the Landscape, and at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Littoral Documents.

Andy Jones - Actor, writer and director Andy Jones was born in St. John’s, where he co-founded the Resource Centre for the Arts at the L.S.P.U. Hall, co-writing, acting in, and directing many original productions. Andy has written five critically acclaimed one-man comedy shows: Still Alive, Out of the Bin, An Evening with Uncle Val, King O’ Fun, and To The Wall which have extensively toured, to critical acclaim, across Canada, the UK, and Ireland. He is well known in Canada as one of the groundbreaking Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO, in both its theatrical and television incarnations. In television he has also co-written and performed in Kids in the Hall, Dooley Gardens, The Cathy Jones Special, and Nasty Habits. In film he played principal roles in Rare Birds, Extraordinary Visitor, Brain Candy, A Secret Nation, Paint Cans, Life With Billy, Coleslaw Warehouse, and The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, which he also co-wrote and directed. Andy is the winner of numerous awards including two Geminis, three Atlantic Film Festival Awards, and the Chicago Film Festival Half-Hour T.V. Award (with Codco), as well as five Gemini nominations, two Emmy nominations (writing for Kids in the Hall) and two Genie nominations for his feature film The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood. He was elected to the Newfoundland Arts Council Hall of Honour in 1993, and was recently awarded the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s Award of Excellence and the ACTRA Award of Excellence for Lifetime Achievement.

Alison Norlem - Alison Norlen completed her BFA Honours degree from the University of Manitoba and her MFA from Yale University. She currently teaches at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Art and History and has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions since the late 1980s across the country. Her work is currently touring in the contemporary drawing exhibition Just My Imagination.

Graeme Patterson - Since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2002, Graeme Patterson has focused his artistic practice on stop-motion animation and multi-media/sculptural installation. He has exhibited work in film animation festivals, galleries, museums and artist-run centres in Canada and internationally. His first major short animation Don't Ride Shopping Carts won Best Animation at the 2003 Garden State Film Festival and Most Promising New Director at the 2003 Atlantic Film Festival. Now living in Woodrow, Saskatchewan, Graeme works independently, creating puppets, sets, animation and music.