Krista Belle Stewart is a First Nations visual artist from Canada. Stewart works in a variety of formats, using archival materials, photographs, and collage.
Early life edit
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 edit
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]
References edit
- ^ "Krista Belle Stewart: Seraphine, Seraphine – Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^ "Krista Belle Stewart: the gaps and unknowns in indigenous histories". Vancouver Sun. 2015-01-31. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^ 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) - ^ "Krista Belle Stewart - Motion and Moment Always - Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery". Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^ "Krista Belle Stewart: Eye Eye - SFU Galleries - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Truth to Material". www.nanaimogallery.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Work to Rule: Krista Belle Stewart | Guest curator: Tania Willard". Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Krista Belle Stewart | Motion and Moment Always". Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "In Search of Expo 67". MAC Montréal. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Krista Belle Stewart | Artspeak". Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Music from the New Wilderness - Western Front". Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Fiction/Non-fiction - Esker Foundation | Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary". Esker Foundation | Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Earthbound Mnemonic". Capture Photography Festival. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "VIVA Awards - Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts". The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. Retrieved 2020-03-06.