HE IS ONE OF US

HE IS ONE OF USJane 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

currency or documents referencing treaties

his style is “loose

modern Indigenous success)

Arndt has been a full-time painter since the age of 14

Many children were orphaned

all shaped by his experiences as a former mountaineer and climber

where he deepened his understanding of the Group of Seven tradition and the Canadian landscape

Paul enjoys combining metal with stone for contrast and uses motifs such as cyclists

making each item both wearable and collectible

Her layered

each selected for its colour

contemporary Canadian paintings that captures shifting light and brilliant emotion