Newtopia explores key developments in modern Newfoundland, considering the new province's early decades as a series of Utopian experiments. The exhibition focuses specifically on the post-Confederation period, when nascent industrialization spawned a series of major, idealistic development projects. The show assembles artists whose investigations tackle visionary Modernist design, the Cold-War American presence, Smallwood-era industrialization and the current lure of big oil. Curated by Bruce Johnson, Newtopia features installations by John Haney, Janaki Lennie, Scott Walden and Peter Wilkins.

Peter Wilkins's work is inspired by the remarkable modernist design at Gander International airport and utilises a range of processes, from the durational to the optical to present it in a new light.

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