Travellers by Sara Hartland-Rowe is one of many public artworks installed across the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Sara Hartland-Rowe, 2014
Painted aluminum
Halifax Transit, Bridge Terminal
About the artwork
Travellers (Rain, Summer Bus, Summer, Trolley, Night Terminus, Dog Bus, Shopper) was created by local artist Sara Hartland-Rowe. The artist developed these paintings based on her everyday observations of people using public transit. Her sketchbooks full of drawings eventually provided the basis for seven laser-cut aluminum panels with buses and the terminal as the backdrop.
These paintings reflect the experience of transit, the physical aspect of place and travel, and the mental space of transit users who pass through the Bridge Terminal every day. Riding the bus can be sociable or mindful, contemplative or relaxing, and this artwork is intended to complement and engage these different experiences.
This artwork was shortlisted for the 2016 Lieutenant Governor’s Masterworks Award.
About the artist
Sara Hartland-Rowe is a Halifax-based painter. She has exhibited her work throughout Canada, the Unite States, the Netherlands, and Argentina. She has produced large-scale wall paintings for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Windsor Art Gallery, Museum London, the Durham Art Gallery, the Koffler Gallery and Harbourfront Gallery.