Judy Anderson is Nêhiyaw (Cree) from Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan, Treaty 4 territory and an Associate Professor of Canadian Indigenous Studio Art in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary. Anderson’s practice includes beadwork, installation, hand-made paper, painting, three-dimensional pieces, and, collaborative projects all of which are deeply personalwith a focus on issues of spirituality, family, colonialism and Indigenous epistemological and ontological traditions.

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In Plain Sight (2024)

Installation for mâmawohkamâtowak with Katherine Boyer at the Nickle Galleries, September 19 – December 14, 2024

 

More on exhibition view here

 

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In Plain Sight, (2024), Size 11 Miyuki and Czech seed beads and copper beads, canvas, tarp, ribbon, rocks, fur felt hat, leather, glass jars, copper rivets, shell hair pipe, smoked moose hide, copper pipe, two stools, approx. 12’ x 14’ (3.7 x 4.3 m).

 

Shirt designed in collaboration with Morgan Possberg Dene.

 

Studio Assistant, Isabelle Forsythe-Rhyno.

 

Photo credit: Andy Nichols, LCR PhotoServices; Courtesy Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary.

 

Photo credit: Tenille Campbell.

 

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