 Untitled, 1992 acrylic & birchbark collage on canvas, 44.5" × 67" |
 Cheyak Brother Bear oil/mixed media paper, 17" × 15½" |
 Sweat Lodge Rama, 2009 mixed media on canvas, 33" × 41 |
 Transporting Souls, 2009 acrylic / mixed media on wood, 40" × 30" |
 Cheyak, 2004 acrylic and mixed media on board, 23" × 17¾" |
 Gaggosh Muukshaan, 2009 acrylic/mixed media on wood, 40" × 30" |
Glenna Matoush – Artist Biography
Born in 1946 in Rama, Ontario, Glenna Matoush received her artistic training at the School of Fine Arts in Elliot Lake, the University of Alberta and the Graphic Guild of Montreal. She has participated in several group and individual exhibitions in Quebec and Ontario and has also created a mural for the school in the village of Oujé-Bougoumou in Northern Quebec.
For many years she lived in the Cree community of Misitissini but now resides in Montreal. While Glenna practiced engraving for several years, she has since the early 1990s devoted most of her time to painting and collage, using a variety of materials such as willow bark, photographs, beads, and paper. Her work moves between the abstract and the figurative in a style committed to “traditional Aboriginal space and new means of expression." [1]
The work of Glenna Matoush often addresses social and political issues closely related to the life of Amerindians. “My paintings focus on my environment and its people,” she says. “The world must be made aware that this land in Northern Quebec deserves to be saved from further exploitation and destruction.”
[1] Michel Noel, Prendre la parole, Artistes amérindiens du Québec, Pointe-Claire, Roussan éditeur, 1993.
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Daphne Odjig, Canadian Indigenous Artist and Icon Dies at 97.
Alex Janvier's major retrospective, "Alex Janvier: Modern Indigenous Master" is now open at the
McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario until January 21st, 2018. Afterwards, it will travel to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.