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Mary Anne Barkhouse | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) |
| Nationality | Kwakwaka'wakw |
| Education | Ontario College of Art, 1991 |
| Known for | Jewellery maker and Sculptor |
Mary Anne Barkhouse RCA (born 1961) is a jeweller and sculptor residing in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada. She belongs to the Nimpkish band of the Kwakiutl First Nation. [1]
Barkhouse was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1961. [2] She is related to several notable artists from the Kwakwaka'wakw art tradition, including Ellen Neel, Mungo Martin, and Charlie James. [3] She was a student of metalsmith Lois Betteridge. [3] In the 1980s Barkhouse played bass with the Ottawa, Ontario punk band The Restless Virgins. [4]
Barkhouse began her professional career in the 1990s [4] and has since created works of art that explore contemporary environmental and indigenous concerns, using personal and collective histories and often incorporating animal imagery. [3]
One of Barkhouse's most significant works is Harvest, a mixed media sculpture completed in 2009 for the Muhheakantuck in Focus exhibition at Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY. The sculpture portrays the names of indigenous groups from the Hudson Valley on porcelain objects arranged on a European-style table. A bronze coyote appears to pull at the tablecloth, giving the impression that the table service may topple to the ground. [5] The sculpture has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada, [6] and has been featured in touring exhibitions.
Despite the end of her relationship with the Ojibwe artist Michael Belmore, Barkhouse has continued to collaborate with him on artistic projects, including the public installation Echo in Toronto. [4]
Barkhouse is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Barkhouse has an extensive public sculpture practice. Her works are permanently installed in cities and institutions including the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario in London, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph and the Millennium Walkway in Peterborough, Ontario. [7]
A major early installation of Barkhouse's is Lichen, a collaboration with Michael Belmore. [8] Installed at the McMichael Gallery in Vaughan, Ontario in 1998, it includes several bronze sculptures of wolves, and a transit shelter with a poster of a raven. [9]
The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, ON, permanently installed Covenant, a sculpture of two coyotes encountering each other, in 2012. [10]
In 2013, The Canadian Museum of History installed 'namaxsala (To Travel in a Boat Together), a bronze and copper sculpture of a wolf in a canoe, staring across the Ottawa River at Parliament Hill. The work was inspired by a story told to Belmore by her grandfather. [11]
Echo, installed in 2015 in Joel Weeks Park in Toronto, features three separate cast bronze sculptures. They include four squirrels worshiping an acorn, a beaver, and a fox. [4]
In 2017, the Koffler Centre of the Arts in Toronto organized a major solo exhibition of new and past works, Mary Anne Barkhouse: Le rêve aux loups, curated by Jennifer Rudder. [6] The show toured with additional works created for the Esker Foundation exhibition in Calgary, Alberta. [12] It included major pieces such as Harvest, works previously included in group shows such as Red Rover from the 2014 Land Marks exhibit organized by the Thames Art Gallery, [13] and new works representing further development of the aesthetics and concepts represented in these pieces.
Red Rover, one of Barkhouse's major works exhibited in this show, continued the visual themes of wolves and poodles explored in May Contain Wolf, her contribution to the 2012 What is Land exhibition at the Tree Museum in Gravenhurst, Ontario. [14]
In 2005, Barkhouse and Belmore exhibited their collaborative works in the exhibition Sanctuary at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario. The show later exhibited at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario. [15]
Barkhouse's work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada (Harvest, 2009 and Sovereign, 2007), Mendel Art Gallery, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, (Grace, 2007) [20] UBC Museum of Anthropology, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Banff Centre for the Arts, Archives of Ontario (Persevere, 2006) and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. [14]
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