Erica Stanley, Artist

Erica Stanley is an artist, goldsmith, educator, and arts advocate living along the beautiful Wolastoq River, in New Brunswick. Stanley’s artistic practice serves as a means of experiencing, understanding, and honouring the natural world around her, and has shown in various galleries, including the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. She has taught at Nunavut Arctic College, the NB College of Craft and Design, and currently runs Queenstown Goldsmiths with her husband, Aidan Stanley. Slow living is her form of rebellion against mass-produced consumerist culture, and she aims to bring humanity back into the process and objects she creates. She gives great thanks to ArtsNB for their support, and dedication to the arts.

Fundy National Park, NB
May - Sept 2023
Beneath the Surface c/o CraftNB

City Gallery, Saint John Arts Centre
Nov 1 - Dec 19, 2024

There are currently fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales left in the world. Loss of food and habitat, due to climate change and human action, have left this ancient species facing potential extinction. Six brass North Atlantic Right Whales swim, nestled in a protective, sacred vessel, formed by hand from recycled copper. The whales, sitting at a cliff edge, look outwards towards their feeding grounds. Copper forms echo out from the central bowl, alluding to the calls of the whales, and a call to action towards ecological decisions and their positive reverberating consequences.