A personal favourite. ๐ค Last painting before leaving Edmonton. I loved working on this. Grateful that @brutalistlonghouse was a part of this work.
Brandon. 2021, Oil on Canvas. Forgot to measure, donโt sue me.
This work is supported by the @yegarts โCreators Reserveโ grant.
Pretty special to be able to spend time with friends and family from the Blood reserve and then create work from it.
โUntellingโ is up at the University of Lethbridge art gallery until January 11th. Thank you @ulethartgallery for your support and for the generosity in sharing the collection of Nicholas de Grandmaison. My research for this work started almost 3 years ago when I became interested in de Grandmaisonโs portraits of Blackfoot people.
This work is a declaration of existence and an expression of love to my Niitsitapi friends and family who live with humour, strength and refuse to settle within imposed boundaries. ๐ซถ๐ผ๐ฉถ
Love the little journey to Toronto this painting took me on! Grateful to have been a finalist in the @kingstonprize with 29 other incredible artists and ultra-grateful to @sydney.f.pascal who allowed me to paint her!
My portraiture practice has been a way to combat the idea of โTerra nulliusโ or โnobodyโs landโ and to show the presence of Indigenous people. Highlighting the everyday and relishing in the ordinariness of being is a small way to demonstrate our ongoing presence and multiplicities. Recently Iโve been enjoying a practice of gifting flowers to sitters and thinking of all the flowers in art history that get to live on through paintings - it reminds me that we are infinite.
Sydney with flowers. Oil on canvas, 36x48โ. 2025.
Last pic is beside my favourite painting in the show โSelf, 32โ by James Chiahan Lee.
๐๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, 2025. Oil on canvas and wood on constructed pergola structure.
Last weekend to get a set of postcards and see ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ at @contemporarycalgary . This work came out of the annual Ksahkomiitapiiks residency at Contemporary Calgary where I was mentored by Blackfoot icon, @fheavyshield . ๐
Thanks for visiting ๐
Photo by Allison Seto
๐๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐
@contemporarycalgary
Always looking back to the very special road trip across southern Alberta that inspired this work. Thank you forever @fheavyshield for your mentorship and endless love to the road trip crew.
@hearty84 did such an amazing job fabricating the recreated signs that we saw along the way. Brandon Wynnychuk helped me create the visitors guide that brings the work together.
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@little_onions_@murielkahwagi@kanika__anand@srhphl@davidleinster and everyone at @contemporarycalgary
Shoutout to every Crazybull ever. Shout out the old man river. Shoutout Honda. Shout out postcard printers. Shoutout Head smashed in Buffalo jump. No shout out to my Adobe free trial I forgot to cancel.
@nakinisowin wrote a beautiful text for my show at @macaulayandcompany called โ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ: ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ป๐บ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญโ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ดโ. The link to the text is in my bio. ๐ซถ๐ผ
๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ
48x72โ
oil on canvas
2024
