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• Jul 17

  2016 EHAC Art Exhibit: Andy Jones and Deb Wickwire

  
  
  The Abbie Table---Family Life in the Salt Fishery
  
  Andy Jones has been reported as saying it is: "...Difficult to bend the mainland mind around the importance of that fish to our existence here."
  
  The importance that is, of the salt fish industry to our continued existence as Newfoundland inhabitants. My mother agrees with Andy.
  My mother says "unless you are from Jamaica or Barbados you may not be aware of the historical importance of the salt fish to our existence (as Newfoundlanders)."
  
  The "Abbie Table" is a 2011 creative project spearheaded by Newfoundland actor, author, storyteller and comedian, Andy Jones.
  
  Due to public demand, "The Abbie Table" will be available for viewing at the English Harbour Arts Centre in Trinity Bay Newfoundland during the summer of 2016. This wooden table top illustration sets the story of the salt fish industry in its historical place by plainly detailing on its surface the family life and times of Abbie Whiffen who grew up from the 1920s to the 1950s in a Newfoundland cove similar to English Harbour just across Trinity Bay. "While the cod may have gone and overall things gotten easier since then, this courage and creativity remains an important example of how we may persist when things get difficult now and more importantly how we might make things better not by just tapping in to the spirit of our hardy ancestors but my tapping into the details of their lives as well." Andy Jones
  Come join us by bending your back and mind around the people and details that have made this table a living legacy for all to enjoy.
  
  
  
  
  Made Fish: A collection of Trinity Bay specimens 2002-2015
  When Deb first visited Trinity Bay in 1997 and learned of the moratorium, and the reduced fish stocks, she decided to begin making molds of various fish that were being caught and turn them into stone for a record. You will find a collection of various species, some authentic, some whimsical, swimming the walls of the arts centre.