Krista Belle Stewart
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.