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Luanne Dominix
Luanne Dominix is a visual artist and educator based in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her practice explores the intersection of material culture, natural resources, and identity; often through the lens of food. Her current body of work investigates Newfoundland foodways: the traditions, practices, and values surrounding food sourcing and preparation. Drawing from personal memory and rural experiences, Luanne uses watercolour to reflect on how we relate to the land, to each other, and to the changing dynamics of modern life. Her paintings blend tenderness and tension, beauty and the grotesque. She invites viewers to reflect on where their food comes from and the systems that shape its journey and what that means in a contemporary life.
By focusing on traditional skills such as filleting fish, or preparing a meal, Luanne explores how food becomes more than sustenance. These acts become expressions of identity, heritage, and care. Her work also pushes back against the erasure of rural experiences and domestic labour, especially the contributions of women.
Much of Luanne’s work is rooted in direct research and experience. She travels to sites of food production and preparation; such as farms, wharves, and rural kitchens. There, she relearns or participates in traditional skills through firsthand engagement. Using photography and note-taking as field documentation, she collects both visual and experiential reference material. Back in her studio, these observations are translated through a slow, deliberate watercolour process. Each painting emerges through layers of controlled mark-making and reflection. The lived experience is distilled into quiet, contemplative form. Her method reveals a tension between immediacy and memory, intimacy and distance.
Luanne has exhibited across Canada and the United States, including with the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Society of Watercolor Artists, and The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery. Her work is held in public collections such as the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Art Bank, the City of St. John's, and Eastern Health (MHAC). In 2021, she received Riddle Fence’s Visual Art Prize. In July 2025, she will join the inaugural cohort of artists at the Bonne Bay Research Facility as part of a new interdisciplinary arts and science research residency. She is also preparing for her first solo show, With Quiet Hands which is scheduled to debut in November 2025 at the rOUGE Gallery in St John's, Newfoundland. This is a continuation of her her foodways exploration that shifts from sea to land. It explores butchery as not only a skill, but also a quiet, embodied art form that is rooted in care, tradition and the ethics of consumption.
Through her work, Luanne invites reflection and conversation. She seeks to honour the resilience and richness of rural experience. Where, even the smallest acts carry generational weight.
