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Lake Nipissing Beading Project
Carrie Allison

Lake Nipissing Beading Project Carrie Allison Website

Sep 29 - Nov 1, 2021

Treaty Space Gallery, 1107 Marginal Rd.

Community collaborative project

Opening Reception: Sept 29th, 4:30 – 6PM

lakenipissingbeadingproject.com

Organized by Carrie Allison and Nipissing University Departments of Geography & History, in partnership with Nipissing First Nation and Dokis First Nation

Lake Nipissing Beading Project is a 5 meter beaded replica of Lake Nipissing along with tributaries and joined waterways. This community collaborative project is meant to bring folks from Nipissing and Dokis communities together through a shared project, as well as other Turtle Island individuals and communities to bead a portion of the lake and its surrounding waterways. We bead to show respect and acknowledge the importance of this waterway to those across this continent, we are all connected and the water shows us this.

To map out the lake and surrounding waterways we have re-imagined using satellite and aerial photographic imagery. The image was gridded into sections that formed the ‘pattern’ for the art installation. By using remote sensing imagery we are inherently ‘taking back’ the imagery produced by the colonial state as a practice of decolonizing a tool that has historically been used to colonize, take land, and push Indigenous communities to less desirable areas. This project is in support of Indigenous sovereignty, reclamation, and decolonizing practices.

Aerial view satellite map of Lake Nipissing and surrounding land
photo of exhibition title wall framed by two gis map prints of Lake Nipissing
long shot photograph of exhibition with title seen in background and long wall with beaded squares arranged on it
front view of gallery wall with various beaded squares filling the shape of the lake outline
pink and green gis map of Lake Nipissing and exhibition text printed on wood
satellite map of Lake Nipissing with exhibition text printed on wood
close up of beaded squares made up of small glass seed beads in various shades of green, one square has the image of a brown turtle in the centre
closeup of one beaded piece, the lower right half of the square is filled with small glass green seed beads
mid shot of some beaded squares, all are various shades of green with some having an image of a turtle and word "nibi"
beaded squares making up the shape of Lake Nipissing
beaded squares making up the shape of Lake Nipissing
closeup of beaded square made up of small glass green seed beads with brown and gold beads in the centre in the shape of a turtle
medium shot of square beaded pieces, all made up of different green coloured seed beads
beaded squares making up the shape of Lake Nipissing
beaded squares making up the shape of Lake Nipissing
beaded squares making up the shape of Lake Nipissing
beaded squares making up the shape of Lake Nipissing
Image credit: Carrie Allison
2019 Graduation exhibition installation. Small drawings and found objects are on the wall next to a textile hanging.

The Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems is a public exhibition space within NSCAD University, presenting professional exhibitions by established artists alongside graduating student exhibitions.

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