Comments

"It was apparent at first glance that MacNutt's sculptures at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia are about the concerns of the human condition. These mute figures speak eloquently to anyone willing to look and thus hear what they have to say. Good art does speak to us." - Virgil Hammock, professor of fine arts at Mt.Allison University, Sackville NB, in American Craft Magazine, Dec.1997.

"... the figures themselves, like stone monoliths forever re-enacting some primitive drama, transcend the usual boundaries of soft sculpture. What's more, their ability to draw out and take upon themselves a myriad of emotions makes them evocative art by any medium's standards." - Charmaine Gaudet, 'Redefining Weaving', Arts Atlantic, Winter 1986

" MacNutt's large human forms and smaller busts - both recent and past - may be seen to depict existential entities or every person characters whose featureless presence confronts the viewer with a stand-in for him or herself.... It is this play of emotion held in a framework - a grid around a body - which continues to animate MacNutt's compelling and unusual figures." - Cliff Eyland, from the catalogue essay for 'All The Ancients Walk Inside Us' exhibition, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Publications

"Studio Rally:Art and Craft in Nova Scotia" Robin Metcalfe, Goose Lane Press 1999

"A Life's Warp and Weft, At Home With Jack Larsen" New York Times, Sept.24th 1998

"ARTSatlantic", "Redefining Weaving", Winter 1986; several reviews 1984-98

"Artfocus" Fall 1997

"The Art of Dawn MacNutt" CBC TV Documentary, Sunday Arts & Entertainment 1997

Chatelaine, May 1995