Fellowship - Macaulay
2025 | DANA CLAXTON, LAURENCE CRAZYBULL, MICHELLE SOUND, CHARLENE VICKERS & LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN
FELLOWSHIP IN COLLABORATION WITH MACAULAY + CO
MONTREAL
June 26 - Aug 23 2025
Opening : Thursday June 26, 2025, 5pm - 7pm
Charlene Vickers, Little Bead Spirits, 2025, Acrylic, canvas, thread, glass beads, shell buttons, craft felt on canvas, 38 1/2 x 37 x 1 1/2 in. Courtesy of Macaulay + Co
Blouin Division is pleased to present Fellowship in collaboration with Macaulay + Co, an exhibition showcasing the work of Dana Claxton, Laurence Crazybull, Michelle Sound, Charlene Vickers & Laurence Paul Yuxweluptun.
About the artists:
Dana Claxton is a critically acclaimed artist who works with film, video, photography, single/ multi-channel video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual. Her work has been shown internationally and is held in public, private and corporate collections.
Lauren Crazybull is a Niitsítapi (Member of Kainai First Nation), Dené artist currently living in Vancouver, BC. In her work, Lauren considers Indigenous presence and multiplicity through paintings, creating worlds where honest portrayals trespass onto romantic representations of Indigeneity. Lauren uses her practice as a way to assert her own humanity, and advocate, in diverse and subtle ways, for the innate intellectual, spiritual, creative and political fortitude of Indigenous peoples.
Michelle Sound’s work explores personal and familial narratives with a consideration of Indigenous artistic processes. Her works explore cultural identities and histories by engaging materials and concepts within a contemporary context. Through utilizing such practices as drum making, caribou hair tufting, beadwork, painting and photography, her work highlights that acts of care and joy are situated in family and community. She works with traditional and contemporary materials and techniques to explore maternal labour, identity,and cultural knowledges.
Encompassing a wide range of media — including painting, sculpture, performance and installation — the practice of Charlene Vickers operates as a visionary expression of what the artist terms embodied territory. Giving vital form to the lands, histories and relations of her birthplace in Wauzhushk Onigum as they are felt, imagined and carried across distance, Vickers’ works lucidly manifest ancestral connections, cultural reclamations and her territorial presence as Anishinaabe Kwe, while responding formally to the Coast Salish land she has resided upon for the past thirty years.
Of Cowichan (Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish) and Okanagan (Syilx) descent, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is one of the most outspoken and influential contemporary artists in Canada today. Yuxweluptun presents his ideas through hard-hitting, polemical, but also playful artworks that now span a forty year career. Yuxweluptuns’ works can be brutal critiques of issues such as land title, residential schools, and the destruction of the environment, making him a pivotal voice in contemporary art.
For more information: Macaulay + Co