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Mary Anne Barkhouse

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Name
  
Mary Barkhouse


Education
  
OCAD University

Known for
  
Jewellery

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Born
  
1961
Vancouver, British Columbia

Books
  
Land Marks: Mary Anne Barkhouse, Wendy Coburn, Brendan Fernandes, Susan Gold and Jerome Harve

Nationality
  
Canadian/Kwakwaka'wakw

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

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Early life

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Barkhouse was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1961. She is related to several notable artists from the Kwakwaka'wakw art tradition, including Ellen Neel, Mungo Martin, and Charlie James. She was a student of metalsmith Lois Betteridge. In the 1980s Barkhouse played bass with the Ottawa, Ontario punk band The Restless Virgins.

Career

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

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

Selected works and exhibitions

  • Land Marks, 2014, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Wendy Coburn, Brendan Fernandes, Jerome Havre, Susan Gold, 2014, Art Gallery of Windsor.
  • Reins of Chaos, 2014, Norfolk Arts Centre, Simcoe, Ontario.
  • What is Land Exhibition, 2012, The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst, Ontario.
  • Facing the Animal, 2012, Julie Andreyev, Bill Burns, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Vancouver, B.C.
  • Close Encounters: The Next 400 Years, 2011, Group exhibition featuring 33 Indigenous artists from Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand (Aoteara), Finland, and Brazil, Plug IN ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • Harvest, 2009, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Boreal Baroque, Mary Anne Barkhouse, 2009, Espanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta.
  • Beaver Tales: Canadian Art and Design, 2008, Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Sovereign, 2007, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Sanctuary, Mary Anne Barkhouse and Michael Belmore, 2005, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Persevere, 2006, bronze on velvet cushion with printed silk map, Government of Ontario Art Collection, Archives of Ontario.
  • 'namaxsala (Kwakwala, "to travel in a boat together") (2013) Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec.
  • Lichen (1999-2002), McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Vaughan, Ontario; (2002-) Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario. In collaboration with Ojibway artist Michael Belmore.
  • Covenant (2012) McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
  • Harvest (2009) “The Muhheakantuck in Focus.” Wave Hill, New York City, New York.
  • Early Morning Wolf Stretching Exercises (1993) "Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy." Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

    • References

    Mary Anne Barkhouse Wikipedia
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