The Bush | Tania Willard
2024
12″ x 16″ (Unframed)
15.75” x 19.5” (Framed)
Cyanotype
Edition of 15
Exposed in Secwepemculecw under the afternoon sun, rinsed with well water and exposed with pine needles , fir needles, fireweed and mountain lupine leaves. I work with cyanotype as a process of collaboration with light on land in my home territory and am interested in working in ecologies with land, art, language, culture and community. I live on Neskonlith Indian Reserve at the forest’s edge and work with rez and rural geographies which I call the BUSH and Bush Gallery.
All of our 2024 Silver Editions are also available as a package at $3000 (unframed)/$4825 (framed). To purchase the 2024 Silver Editions Package, please contact info@gallerytpw.ca.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tania Willard is a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist whose research intersects with land-based art practices. Her practice activates connection to land, culture, and family, centering art as an Indigenous resurgent act, though collaborative projects such as BUSH Gallery and support of language revitalization in Secwépemc communities. Her artistic and curatorial work includes Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2012-2014) and Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe (ongoing). Willard’s work is included in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Forge Project NY, Kamloops Art Gallery, Belkin gallery and the Anchorage Museum, among others. In 2016, she received the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art. In 2020, the Shadbolt Foundation awarded her their VIVA Award for outstanding achievement and commitment in her art practice, and in 2022 she was named a Forge Project Fellow for her land-based, community-engaged artistic practice. In 2023 BUSH Gallery was named as a Future Studies recipient from Ruth Foundation for the Arts. Willard is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan in Syilx territories.
2024
12″ x 16″ (Unframed)
15.75” x 19.5” (Framed)
Cyanotype
Edition of 15
Exposed in Secwepemculecw under the afternoon sun, rinsed with well water and exposed with pine needles , fir needles, fireweed and mountain lupine leaves. I work with cyanotype as a process of collaboration with light on land in my home territory and am interested in working in ecologies with land, art, language, culture and community. I live on Neskonlith Indian Reserve at the forest’s edge and work with rez and rural geographies which I call the BUSH and Bush Gallery.
All of our 2024 Silver Editions are also available as a package at $3000 (unframed)/$4825 (framed). To purchase the 2024 Silver Editions Package, please contact info@gallerytpw.ca.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tania Willard is a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist whose research intersects with land-based art practices. Her practice activates connection to land, culture, and family, centering art as an Indigenous resurgent act, though collaborative projects such as BUSH Gallery and support of language revitalization in Secwépemc communities. Her artistic and curatorial work includes Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2012-2014) and Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe (ongoing). Willard’s work is included in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Forge Project NY, Kamloops Art Gallery, Belkin gallery and the Anchorage Museum, among others. In 2016, she received the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art. In 2020, the Shadbolt Foundation awarded her their VIVA Award for outstanding achievement and commitment in her art practice, and in 2022 she was named a Forge Project Fellow for her land-based, community-engaged artistic practice. In 2023 BUSH Gallery was named as a Future Studies recipient from Ruth Foundation for the Arts. Willard is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan in Syilx territories.
2024
12″ x 16″ (Unframed)
15.75” x 19.5” (Framed)
Cyanotype
Edition of 15
Exposed in Secwepemculecw under the afternoon sun, rinsed with well water and exposed with pine needles , fir needles, fireweed and mountain lupine leaves. I work with cyanotype as a process of collaboration with light on land in my home territory and am interested in working in ecologies with land, art, language, culture and community. I live on Neskonlith Indian Reserve at the forest’s edge and work with rez and rural geographies which I call the BUSH and Bush Gallery.
All of our 2024 Silver Editions are also available as a package at $3000 (unframed)/$4825 (framed). To purchase the 2024 Silver Editions Package, please contact info@gallerytpw.ca.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tania Willard is a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist whose research intersects with land-based art practices. Her practice activates connection to land, culture, and family, centering art as an Indigenous resurgent act, though collaborative projects such as BUSH Gallery and support of language revitalization in Secwépemc communities. Her artistic and curatorial work includes Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2012-2014) and Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe (ongoing). Willard’s work is included in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Forge Project NY, Kamloops Art Gallery, Belkin gallery and the Anchorage Museum, among others. In 2016, she received the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art. In 2020, the Shadbolt Foundation awarded her their VIVA Award for outstanding achievement and commitment in her art practice, and in 2022 she was named a Forge Project Fellow for her land-based, community-engaged artistic practice. In 2023 BUSH Gallery was named as a Future Studies recipient from Ruth Foundation for the Arts. Willard is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan in Syilx territories.