Leonard Paul - Visual Art
Location:
Hantsport, NS
"I paint with a pencil and draw with a brush."
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Spotlight
Profiles of Canada's premier Aboriginal artists, filmmakers, writers and designers.
Alan Syliboy - Painting and Mixed Media
Location:
Millbrook, NS
"As my exploration of painting and my understanding of Mi'kmaq spiritualism expanded, my confidence and ability grew with it. Since my family is where I am centered, everything else is exterior."
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Teresa Marshall - Mixed Media
Location: Truro, NS
"My work is political to some people because I raise issues that many would prefer be repressed, but it's part of our history, how we've survived and changed. It makes us part of who we are today."
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Jeff Thomas - Photography
Location: Ottawa, ON
"The most rewarding part of being an artist is providing a new view of the world for my audience - one that raises questions about their own stereotypes of First Nations."
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David Ruben Piqtoukun - Carving
Randy Simon - Sculpture
Location: Big Cove First Nation, NB
"What I have found is a lot of stories and legends have been lost. So what I do is, preserve these legends that have gathered through Native Art and sculptures and pass on the Micmac legends."
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Charles Elliot - Coast Salish Art
Location: Brentwood Bay, BC
"You can't put anything contemporary in your work if you're not aware of your Nation. Do your own art form. If it's Salish, do Salish. Find out what it's about, do what you know out of respect for other nations. "
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Charles Doucette - Mixed Media
Location: Chapel Hill, NS
"I've done quite a bit with a lot of different materials and I keep trying new materials whether they're artificial or natural. It has to work with the idea or the image or the notion I'm trying to get solidified."
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Margaret Pelletier - Basketweaving
Location: River Denys, Nova Scotia
"Basket Weaving has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My mother has been a big influence in my life as to the different techniques and styles of baskets. It is my intention to both preserve the art and form of the traditional techniques of Mi'kmaq basketry, yet continue to create new forms which will allow me to highlight traditional heritage."
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Isabelle Rorick - Haida Weaving
Location: Hornby Island, B.C.
"I love the challenge of transforming these trees into objects of beauty: a hat for feasts, ceremonies or dancing, a basket for gathering food or storing personal treasures." (Wave Length Paddling Magazine, Gabriola Island, BC Oct/Nov. 2000)
Brian Jungen - Mixed Media
Brian Jungen is one of Canada's best known young artists. In 2002, he won the $50,000 inaugural Sobey Art Award. In 2004, the Warhol Art Foundation granted the Vancouver Art Gallery $50,000 to organize a travelling exhibit of Jungen's work, which often involves the transformation of everyday objects.
He fashioned Northwest Coast Indian style masks out Nike sneakers, and a gigantic whale skeleton out of plastic lawn chairs.
Billy Merkosak - Carving
Location: Pond Inlet, Nunavut
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Ned Bear - Masks
Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick
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Dinah Andersen - Carver/Painter
Location: Goose Bay, Labrador
"I like to try different materials and I'm not just stuck to one type of stone. It is a way I can express my spirituality."
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KC Adams - Installation
Location: Winnipeg, MB
"My main focus has been the investigation of the dynamic relationship between nature (the living) and technology (progression). I work in any medium I can get my hands on."
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Leonard Paul - Visual Art
"I paint with a pencil and draw with a brush."
Education:
Painting, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Political Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS
Foreign studies in Europe, India, United States
Selected Exhibitions, Awards:
Private Art Exhibition, Dreams Catchers, Wolfville, NS 1996
"Nova Scotia River Series", Chateau Halifax, Halifax, NS 199
"Still Moments", Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, NS 1991
"Pe'l A'tukwey", Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS 1993
"Indian Art, 1984", Brandtford, ON 1984
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