The Length of Grief: The daughters
of Métis Mothers

 The Length of Grief: The daughters of Métis Mothers
Amy Malbeuf
January 19 to February 23, 2018
Opening: Friday, January 19, 8pm

Inspired by two Métis women’s intuitive responses to grief The Length of Grief: The daughters of Métis Mothers explores loss. Through the exhibition, the artist accesses personal, familial, ancestral, and collective narratives and experiences of loss to explore Indigenous feminism and Indigenous concepts of time as they relate to the strength and resilience of Indigenous women.

Amy Malbeuf
is a Métis visual artist from Rich Lake, Alberta. Through utilizing mediums such as caribou hair tufting, beadwork, installation, performance, and video Malbeuf explores notions of identity, place, language, and ecology. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in over forty shows at such venues as Art Mûr, Montréal, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe; and Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, New Zealand. Malbeuf has participated in many international artist residencies including at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, (AUS); The Banff Centre; The Labrador Research Institute; and Santa Fe Art Institute (US). She holds a MFA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Malbeuf has been the recipient of such honours as the 2016 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, the 2016 William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists in Canada from the Hnatyshyn Foundation, a 2017 REVEAL award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation and was long listed for the 2017 Sobey Art Award.