Krista Belle Stewart

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Krista Belle Stewart is a First Nations visual artist from Canada. Stewart works in a variety of formats, using archival materials, photographs, and collage.

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Early life

Stewart is from the Upper Nicola Band in the British Columbia interior region. Stewart's mother Seraphine was the first First Nations public health nurse in British Columbia; she was the subject of a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary in 1967. [1]

Career

Stewart works with combinations of archival items, such as photographs and video, and various types of collage techniques and fiber art. [2] One of her earlier projects, Self Portrait on a Canning Lid, worked with older photographic techniques, such as tintype, to create images referencing her cultural history and ethnography practices. [3]

Her 2014 installation piece, Motion and Moment Always, reproduced a historical image of chiefs from the Nisga'a First Nations on the British Columbia coast as a weaving, working with Vancouver weaver Ruth Scheuing. This piece is combined with items such as a bucket containing soil from Douglas Lake, where Stewart was raised, as well as other archival items highlighting women's roles in First Nations cultures. [4]

Stewart has had solo exhibitions at the SFU Galleries, Burnaby (2018–19), [5] Nanaimo Art Gallery (2019), [6] Kelowna Art Gallery (2016), [7] and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2015). [8] Group exhibitions include In Search of Expo 67, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (2017), [9] Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2016–17), [10] Where Does it Hurt?, at Artspeak, Vancouver (2014), [11] Music from the New Wilderness, Western Front, Vancouver (2014), [12] and Fiction/Nonfiction, Esker Foundation, Calgary (2013). [13]

In 2019, Stewart's work Earthbound Mnemonic was featured on the BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation in Vancouver as a feature of the Capture Photography Festival. [14] Also in 2019, she was the recipient of the VIVA Award from the Jask and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Krista Belle Stewart: Seraphine, Seraphine – Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  2. ↑ "Krista Belle Stewart: the gaps and unknowns in indigenous histories". Vancouver Sun. 2015-01-31. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  3. ↑ The cultural work of photography in Canada. Kunard, Andrea., Payne, Carol. Montreal [Que.]: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2011. ISBN   9780773538610. OCLC   806255104.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ↑ "Krista Belle Stewart - Motion and Moment Always - Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery". Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  5. ↑ "Krista Belle Stewart: Eye Eye - SFU Galleries - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  6. ↑ "Truth to Material". www.nanaimogallery.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  7. ↑ "Work to Rule: Krista Belle Stewart | Guest curator: Tania Willard" . Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  8. ↑ "Krista Belle Stewart | Motion and Moment Always". Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  9. ↑ "In Search of Expo 67". MAC Montréal. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  10. ↑ "Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  11. ↑ "Krista Belle Stewart | Artspeak" . Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  12. ↑ "Music from the New Wilderness - Western Front" . Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  13. ↑ "Fiction/Non-fiction - Esker Foundation | Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary". Esker Foundation | Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  14. ↑ "Earthbound Mnemonic". Capture Photography Festival. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  15. ↑ "VIVA Awards - Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts". The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
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