WHERE IS THE GRASS?

WHERE IS THE GRASS?Jane 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

and dance screens for Massett and Skidegate communities

many of which are now held by the Glenbow museum in Calgary

at Lake of the Woods

Papiara’s simple forms capture the essence of her subject — whether it be human or animal or some combination of the two

These elements carry meaning

and harmony

Saskatchewan) is a self-taught Canadian sculptor whose work reflects a profound connection to the natural world

one of Canada’s most celebrated landscape artists

Each sculpture Sopel creates is a bespoke

Schlatter later turned fully to painting in 1990

his work captures subtle colour

recycled graffiti