$59,000.00

Caribou Dreamin’

Catherine Blackburn
Toronto, Ontario

$59,000.00

Caribou Dreamin’

Catherine Blackburn
Toronto, Ontario

Size

72" x 54" x 54"

Medium

Vintage Skidoo coats, Caribou hair, Swarovski crystals, embroidery thread, ric rac

Through methods of rerouting, reconstructing, and reconsidering, Caribou-Dreamin’ stitches together Denesųłiné oral histories and family stories to explore inter-species-ness and inter-related-ness. This work honours Indigenous dress as living vessel as I reflect on Denesųłiné futurisms as a strategy to centre my body as a time machine. These material investigations center the intricacies and complexities of love to land, and the shared ingenuity found in both Denesųłiné and Caribou survival. Through an investigation of self, and the identity of my community as ‘The Caribou People’, I was led to research this question, ‘What if I am Caribou?’

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About the artist

Catherine Blackburn
Toronto, Ontario

Catherine Blackburn was born in Patuanak, Saskatchewan and is a member of the English River First Nation (Denesųłiné). She is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweller whose narrative work often addresses Canada’s settler-colonialism. Her work grounds itself in the Indigenous feminine and is bound through the ancestral love that stitching suggests. Through stitchwork, she explores Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, and representation. Her work has exhibited in notable national and international exhibitions including Radical Stitch, Àbadakone, Santa Fe Haute Couture Fashion Show and Toronto Indigenous Fashion Week. She has received numerous awards for her work including the Sobey Art Award longlist (2019/2023), a Forge Residency Fellowship (2022), and an Eiteljorg Fellowship (2021).

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