Opening Reception - Tamika Knutson: Skin
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ODD Gallery-- Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 2nd Ave & Princess St (Bag 8000), Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0
Tamika Knutson, "Skin," 2018
Opening Thursday, May 17th at 7:30PM Artist Talk TBA
The ODD Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of brand new jewellery by emerging local artist Tamika Knutson. Knutson obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University in Halifax with a major in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing. Since graduating her pieces have been included in a number of group exhibitions and have found their way into private collections and the Yukon Permanent Art Collection.
Artist Statement Your skin protects and houses the most vital parts of your body, it is your shelter and home. I am inspired by how birch bark, the skin of a tree, is used as a material by First Nations and how crucial it has been to their livelihood. My aim with these jewellery pieces is to explore and retrace my indigenous identity as a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in citizen while also bringing First Nation craft into a more contemporary space.
Through resourcefulness, First Nations transform ordinary things into useful materials, functional objects, and beautiful ornaments. I identify with this evolution of materials as a jeweller, as we also take rough materials and transform them into something precious. The use of birch bark in my work symbolizes an historical exchange between nature and people, and the subjectivity of preciousness.
— Tamika Knutson, 2018
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