Krista Belle Stewart
Canadian artist
Krista Belle Stewart is a First Nations visual artist from Canada. Stewart works in a variety of formats, using archival materials, photographs, and collage.
Early life
Stewart is from the Upper Nicola Band in the British Columbia interior region. Stewart's mother Seraphine was the first First Nations public health nurse in British Columbia; she was the subject of a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary in 1967.
Career
Stewart works with combinations of archival items, such as photographs and video, and various types of collage techniques and fiber art. One of her earlier projects, Self Portrait on a Canning Lid, worked with older photographic techniques, such as tintype, to create images referencing her cultural history and ethnography practices.
Her 2014 installation piece, Motion and Moment Always, reproduced a historical image of chiefs from the Nisga'a First Nations on the British Columbia coast as a weaving, working with Vancouver weaver Ruth Scheuing. This piece is combined with items such as a bucket containing soil from Douglas Lake, where Stewart was raised, as well as other archival items highlighting women's roles in First Nations cultures.
Stewart has had solo exhibitions at the SFU Galleries, Burnaby (2018–19), Nanaimo Art Gallery (2019), Kelowna Art Gallery (2016), and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2015). Group exhibitions include In Search of Expo 67, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (2017), Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2016–17), Where Does it Hurt?, at Artspeak, Vancouver (2014), Music from the New Wilderness, Western Front, Vancouver (2014), and Fiction/Nonfiction, Esker Foundation, Calgary (2013).
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