Wrapped in Culture (Working)

360° Virtual Exhibition

Meet the Artists

• Barry Ace

  

  Barry Ace is a practicing visual artist living in Ottawa. He is a band member of M’Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario. His paintings and textile works explore various aspects of cultural continuity and the confluence of the historical and contemporary. His work can be found in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of History, the Ottawa Art Gallery, and the Nordamerika Native Museum in Zurich.

• Kerri Clarke

  

  Kerri Clarke is an artist of Boon Wurrung descent in south-eastern Australia. Kerri is skilled in a variety of methods, including sewing and working with animal skins. Like her aunt, Maree Clarke, Kerri is active in the resurgence of traditional Aboriginal Australian artistic methods. She is also a counsellor who works with families in New South Wales.

• Maree Clarke

  

  Maree Clarke is well-respected figure of the south-eastern Australian Aboriginal community for her work supporting Aboriginal artists and for her own successful arts practice. Her exhibition Ritual and Ceremony explored the traditional ceremonies of grief and mourning of her Victorian Aboriginal ancestors. It originates from Clarke’s fascination with the Kopi, a mourning cap made out of gypsum that was worn when a loved one or significant clan member passed away.

• Rosalie Favell

  

  Rosalie Favell is a photo-based artist, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Drawing inspiration from her family history and Métis (Cree/English) heritage, she uses a variety of sources to present a complex self-portrait of her experiences as a contemporary Aboriginal woman. Her work has appeared internationally in group and solo exhibitions, including the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the National Gallery of Canada.

• Mitch Mahoney

  

  Mitch Mahoney is an artist and descendant of the Boon Wurrung and Barkindji peoples of south-eastern Australia. He has been actively involved in the revival of Aboriginal possum-skin cloaks throughout southern Australia. Along with his Aunt Maree Clarke, Mitch facilitated several state-wide workshops to bring traditional Aboriginal art forms to communities across Australia. In 2015 he was awarded with the National Gallery of Australia’s prestigious National Summer Art Scholarship.

• Molly Mahoney

  

  Molly Mahoney is an emerging artist and a descendant of the Boon Wurrung and Barkindji peoples of south-eastern Australia. Coming from an artistic family, Molly works with traditional methods and materials such as sewing and working with possum, kangaroo hide, and emu feathers, exploring the blending of the ancestral with the contemporary. Molly is currently completing her secondary studies.

• Wade Mahoney

  

  Wade Mahoney is a descendant of the Barkindji people of the Darling River country in Western New South Wales, Australia. As an artist, he works in traditional methods including wood carving and working with skins. In his work as an artist and counsellor, Wade is dedicated to the maintenance of Aboriginal culture and cultural practices.

• Meryl McMaster

  

  Meryl McMaster is a Canadian artist based in Ottawa. Her photography incorporates props, sculptural garments and performance to transport the viewer out of the ordinary and into a space of contemplation and introspection. Her work has been acquired by the Canadian Museum of History, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Eiteljorg Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Ottawa Art Gallery, among others.

• Adrian Stimson

  

  Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation. He considers himself as an interdisciplinary artist; he exhibits nationally and internationally. Working through painting, performance and installation, Stimson explores imagined landscapes, identity construction (specifically the hybridization of the Indian, the cowboy, the shaman and Two Spirit being. Buffalo Boy and The Shaman Exterminator are two reoccurring personas.)

• Vicki West

  

  Vicki West is an Aboriginal Tasmanian artist, and has worked extensively as an advisor on Aboriginal arts and culture for various Australian institutions. Her textile, sculptural and installation work has appeared in several solo and group exhibitions across Australia, where she is renowned for her work with kelp, a traditional material used in Tasmania. West received her MFA from the University of Tasmania.