Catherine Blackburn: New Age Warriors | Love the Skin
Fall 2024 at Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
Catherine Blackburn, The Waterhen Weaver, 2018, inkjet on dibond.
Catherine Blackburn: New Age Warriors
September 26, 2024 – January 8, 2025
Dunlop Art Gallery (Central Library)
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Curated by Jesse Campbell
Originating at Mann Art Gallery
Circulated by Dunlop Art Gallery
After a successful four-year Canada-wide tour, New Age Warriors will make its final stop at Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Catherine Blackburn’s work explores loss, language, and survival through the medium of beadwork. While these themes continue to flow through this exhibition, Blackburn’s New Age Warriors expands conversations around love and perseverance. Combining regalia designed from plastic beads with photographs of Indigenous women wearing her creations, Blackburn considers Indigenous futures, storytelling and kinship, drawing from traditions of the past and the culture of the present to celebrate the strength of Indigenous women.
Catherine Blackburn was born in Patuanak, SK. She is of Dene and European ancestry and is a member of the English River First Nation. She is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweller, whose common themes address Canada’s colonial past that are often prompted by personal narratives. Her work has been shown internationally, from galleries to fashion runways. She has received numerous grants and awards for her work, including a Governor General History Award, the Saskatchewan RBC Emerging Artist Award, and the Melissa Levin Emerging Artist Award. In 2019, she was longlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. She is affiliated with the Alcheringa Gallery in Victoria, BC; the Mann Art Gallery in Prince Albert, SK; the Remai Modern in Saskatoon SK; Slate Gallery in Regina SK, and the BYellowtail Collective in Los Angeles, CA.
Guided Art Tour with Catherine Blackburn & Opening Reception
September 26, 6:00pm CST
In-person at Dunlop Art Gallery (Central Library)
Pre-registration not required.
Join us for a special in-gallery guided art tour from 6:00 – 6:30pm with Catherine Blackburn to hear about her exhibition called New Age Warriors. This exhibition has been on a Canadian-wide tour for four years, with its final stop at Dunlop Art Gallery. Opening reception will follow.
Open Mic: Peace and Power
September 26, 6:00 – 8:00pm CST
In-person at Dunlop Art Gallery (Central Library)
Join us for a special Open Mic Night, celebrating the opening of Catherine Blackburn’s exhibition. Open mic for all skill levels. Share your poetry, spoken word, dance, rhymes, or anything you’ve been creating. Drop-in and be part of this inspiring event, as we celebrate peace, power, and collective action. Enjoy live performances by an all-Indigenous line-up of headliners: the Warrior Spirit Matriarchs, Ray the Nihilist and DJ Mikesmith, Kawacatoose Boys, Marcus Merasty, Brandy Tabor, Reggie Severight, and more. Hosted by Kris Alvarez.
Amy Malbeuf, Tattoo for Kris, 2019, photograph.
Love the Skin
November 2, 2024 – January 29, 2025
Dunlop Art Gallery (Sherwood Village Branch)
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Guest curated by Stacey Fayant
Featuring Meagon Anishinabie, Darla Campbell, Melanie Lefebvre, and Amy Malbeuf.
This exhibition features four Indigenous artists who work intimately with skin. It explores the act of working with skin as connection to life: people, animals, the earth, and oneself. Skin is a barrier and a form of protection, but it is also permeable and changeable. Traditionally, animal skins have been transformed into rawhide and leather for use as homes, clothes, footwear, and musical instruments since pre-history. Animal skins become a second means of protection, but also a means of self-expression and decoration. Similarly, tattoos can become clothing, protection, self-expression and decoration as a tradition in many cultures around the globe. Not only are the end products protective and beautiful but so is the creation process through the artists’ self-extension through touch, sight, and even breath as acts of deep love and care for the world around them.
Stacey Fayant is a MĂ©tis, Nehiyaw, Saulteaux and French visual artist from Regina, SK. Her art practice focuses on concepts surrounding identity and trauma in relation to colonialism and racism, but also in relation to healing, family, and community. She works in many mediums and is an Indigenous Cultural Tattoo Artist involved in the revitalization of Indigenous Tattooing here on Turtle Island.
Artist Talk & Opening Reception: Love the Skin
November 2, 1:00pm
In-person at Dunlop Art Gallery (Sherwood Village Branch)
Pre-registration not required.
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Join us for the guest curator and artist talk with Stacey Fayant and Darla Campbell. Following the talk will be a reception.
About Dunlop Art Gallery at Regina Public Library
Central Library location
2311 – 12th Avenue
Regina SK S4P 3Z5
Gallery Hours (CST), Central Library
Mon to Thurs, 9:30am – 9pm
Fri, 9:30am – 6pm
Sat, 9:30am – 5pm
Sun, 12 – 5pm
Sherwood Village Branch location
6121 Rochdale Boulevard
Regina SK S4X 2R1
Gallery Hours (CST), Sherwood Village Branch
Mon, Thurs, Fri, 9:30am – 6pm
Tues, Wed, 9:30am – 9pm
Sat, 9:30am – 5pm
Sun, 12 – 5pm
Admission is FREE to all exhibitions.
Galleries are wheelchair accessible.
306-777-6040
dunlop@reginalibrary.ca
reginalibrary.ca/dunlopartgallery
We acknowledge the support of SK Arts, and funding partners SaskCulture and Saskatchewan Lotteries, whose contributions help the arts thrive in this province.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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