Artist Talk: Roots Above Branches

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“Roots Above Branches,” 2018

installation view. Photo courtesy of Urban Shaman Gallery.

Artist Talk: Roots Above Branches - Thursday, MAY 10 at 7pm till 8pm.

Artists: Robyn Adam, Niamh Dooley, Danielle Fenn, Kristin Flattery, Sarah Stewart

Location: Main and Marvin Francis Media Art Gallery

As part of the “Roots Above Branches” exhibition, the five artists will speak about their own artwork and as a group show. Please join us in supporting these new voices in the artworld. Refreshments will be served.

Biographies

Robyn Adam’s connection is to craft tactility and connecting to her ancestors in Canada who identify as being Métis. Exploring relationship from construction materials like concrete with raw natural animal remains like bones, leather and fur she explores hybridity in pursuit of decolonization.

Niamh Dooley is an Oji-Cree and Irish contemporary artist based in Winnipeg. She’s a band member of St. Theresa Point First Nation in Treaty 5 territory of Manitoba, but grew up in Treaty 3 territory in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. She predominantly focuses on the exploration of identity, cultural issues, and her interest in the relationships between Indigenous people, past and present, and connecting them with both traditional and contemporary materials in her art practice.

Danielle Fenn is a white presenting Métis woman of Scottish-Cree, English and Irish ancestry. She lives and works in Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba where she was born and raised. Fenn’s work explores notions of ground and the feeling of being grounded, formally and in relation to identity, women-hood, and the sacred.

Kristin Flattery is a contemporary Dakota and Anishinaabe artist and mother from Long Plain First Nation, Treaty 1 Territory. As a radical Indigenous political activist, her artwork embodies a performative story-telling nature, regarding our relationship and connectedness to the land and exposing the profound effects of colonialism, reclaiming Western spaces and our Indigenous Identities through the discourse of Aboriginal Sovereignty. What will the next 150 year look like for Kanata?

Sarah Stewart is a Métis interdisciplinary artist working in installation, sculpture, video and design from Winnipeg, MB. Her work often utilizes found objects and materials, thematically she is interested in creating work that explores themes of communication, growth/stagnation, in-between states, and strange spaces.

Special thanks to the University of Manitoba: School of Art, and The Gail Asper Family Foundation for their support with this exhibition.