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Suzanne Morrissette is an artist who was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and currently works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her work is often abstract and is about her personal definition of culture as an aboriginal woman in Canada. Most of her works are executed as paintings, however, she quite often incorporates sculptural methods such as woodworking and mold growth into her work to simulate the qualities of skin and the human body. Currently, Suzanne studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Visual Arts program after completing two years at the University of Manitoba. She has taken part in exhibitions including Rotting Pretty, a solo show in 2007 at the Gallery of Student Art at the University of Manitoba, and Plastic Woodland, a group show in 2007 at Urban Shaman Gallery. Suzanne has been the grateful recipient of the Grant Hermanson Award for Artistic Achievement in 2005 and the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Canadian Heritage Award in 2007.
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I am interested in the interactions between land, and ancestry. With all of the damage and disrespect that we inflict on land, that is for the most part only now being realized, it is hard not to look at the land we inhabit for stimulus. This land is capable of telling many stories, that can be read when one looks hard enough in the right places. These stories are a part of the earth's history, and dicate lineage or chronological past, not unlike the genealogical or ancestral accounts of familial lineage. Objects left behind remain with the earth and become imbued with a history of space and people. The projection of these pasts onto the present can help us to better understand our communities and our own personal histories. I want to investigate these histories in an attempt to heal.
CONTACT www.suzannemorrissette.com roadmapdestination, various media, 2008.
roadmaporigin, river clay and acrylic, 2008.
roadmaporigin2, river clay and various media, 2008.
roadmapassinaboine, clay on oil, 2008.
4 cups , slip cast tea cups with Assiniboine river slip, 2008.
roadmaphorizon, river clay and acrylic, 2008.
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