Mary Anne Barkhouse

Mary Anne Barkhouse
Born 1961
Vancouver, British Columbia
Nationality Canadian/Kwakwaka'wakw
Education Ontario College of Art, 1991
Known for Sculpture

Mary Anne Barkhouse is a jeweller and sculptor residing in Ontario, Canada. She belongs to the Nimpkish band of the Kwakiutl First Nation.[1]

Early life

Barkhouse is related to several notable artists from the Kwakwaka'wakw art tradition, including Ellen Neel, Mungo Martin, and Charlie James.[2] She was a student of metalsmith Lois Betteridge.[2] In the 1980s Barkhouse played bass with the Ottawa, Ontario punk band The Restless Virgins.[3]

Career

Barkhouse's artworks highlight modern environmental and indigenous concerns through the lens of personal and shared histories. Many of her works use animal imagery.[2]

Barkhouse is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Selected works and exhibitions[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mary Anne Barkhouse". Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Dysart, Jennifer; Bob, Tanya; Barkhouse, Mary Anne (2012). Old Punk Rockers Never Die, They Just Do Installation Art (PDF). Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  3. Warnica, Richard. "Acorn as Art; an Arresting Public Sculpture Features Four Squirrels Worshipping a Giant Nut." National Post: Jun 20 2015. ProQuest. Web. 23 Sep. 2015
  4. Galleries & museums. (2014, Apr 15). Windsor Star. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/docview/1516657979?accountid=15182
  5. Garneau, David. "Traditional Futures." Border Crossings 30.2 (2011): 72-78. Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 23 Sept. 2015
  6. Harvest, National Gallery of Canada
  7. Sovereign, National Gallery of Canada
  8. Simpson, Peter (13 September 2013). "Mary Anne Barkhouse’s brilliant copper canoe, now at the Museum of Civilization". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  9. Kerstin Knopf (2008). Aboriginal Canada Revisited. University of Ottawa Press. pp. 171–172. ISBN 978-0-7766-0679-8.
  10. "New Public Art: Mary Anne Barkhouse sculpture". McMaster Museum of Art Blog. McMaster University Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  11. Genocchio, Benjamin (3 September 2009). "The River’s Meaning to Indians, Before and After Hudson". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2014.

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