Alderney Gate Library unveils new public art work piece | Arts + Custom | Halifax, Nova Scotia
Downtown Dartmouth has no shortage of attention-grabbing, neck-craning, selfie-worthy artworks—the sorts of things that imbue a method of place and make the regularly the entire further thought-about.
As of Friday, though, these murals and story-high quotes purchased some agency: Alderney Gate Library debuted a bit of public art work, located above its newly revamped foremost lobby house (tucked inside Alderney Landing).
The eternal, untitled piece was created by Halifax artist Jason Skinner from library discards. It’s a flock of 42 gulls—some in flight, some perched—that may, as Skinner put it in an Instagram submit,”welcome[e] ferry riders, market goers