CARIBOU SOUND

CARIBOU SOUNDJane Ash Poitras is one of Canadas most important contemporary Indigenous artists. Her work is immediately recognizable for its layered, symbolic, and deeply narrative style, blending Western contemporary art techniques with Cree cultural knowledge and lived experience. A defining feature of her artwork is complex layering. She combines paint, collage, photographs, text, and found objects. Poitras' works often resemble visual archives, stacked with

Robert painted en plein-air from antique car

currency or documents referencing treaties

and harmony

Each sculpture is typically hand-carved

Wright’s approach combines intuitive texture-building with intellectual layering

sort of halfway between Robert Bateman and a caveman

men and two spirited peoples

“MacDonald’s large expressive paintings tackle a broad range of themes

transparency

contemporary paintings

is renowned for his glass panels

There is often an air of the surreal in his paintings emphasized by his use of figurative elements that seem about to materialize