Artist Talk with Rebecca Belmore
Thursday 6, March, 2025
Doors at 6:00 pm | Talk at 6:30 pm
Rebecca Belmore is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist from Lac Seul First Nation in Northern Ontario. Beginning January 17 the Gallery is pleased to present a film installation by Rebecca entitled March 5, 1819. Re-staging an under examined historic moment, Belmore collapses time and space to speak to the most pressing issues of our time, including water and land rights, women’s lives and dignity, and institutional violence against Indigenous people. This work is on loan from The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Throughout her career Rebecca Belmore’s work has garnered numerous awards and accolades, including the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation’s VIVA Award (2004), the Hnatyshyn Visual Arts Award (2009), the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2013), the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2016), and Honorary Doctorates from Ontario College of Art & Design University (2005) and Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2017). In 2005, she was Canada’s official representative at the Venice Biennale where she created “Fountain” for the Canadian Pavilion.
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