Artist Talk with Catherine Blackburn

Date: May 9, 2024
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Fee: Free! Registration Required

Get a closer look at the artistic practice of multidisciplinary artist and jeweller, Catherine Blackburn. Blackburn will discuss a variety of artistic projects that have led to her current artistic explorations, including Convergence, a collaborative project developed with her niece, fashion designer Melanie LeBlanc, displayed in part in Labours of Love.

Catherine Blackburn, member of the English River First Nation (Denesuline), is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweller, whose common themes address Canada’s colonial past that are often prompted by personal narratives. Her work grounds itself in the Indigenous feminine and is bound through the ancestral love that stitching suggests. Through stitchwork, she explores Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization and representation. Her work has exhibited in notable national and international exhibitions including: Santa Fe Haute Couture Fashion Show, Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, Radical Stitch and Àbadakone. She has received numerous awards for her work, including an Eitlejorg 2021 Fellowship, a 2022 Forge Residency Fellowship, and the Sobey Art Award longlist 2023.