Cannupa Hanska Luger

Cannupa Hanska Luger

April 12, 2019

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Artist Talk  - Thursday 9 May 2019

We are honoured and delighted that

and his family will be coming to Bristol for our spring exhibition

. Not only will he be contributing ceramic artwork to the show he will also be inviting us all to participate in an open conversation. This discussion event will be followed by an artist reception at Rainmaker Gallery. Both events will take place on Thursday 9th May.

Cannupa Hanska Luger is an internationally celebrated multi-disciplinary artist and activist. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian and Norwegian descent. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fibre, steel, and cut-paper, Cannupa interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st century Indigeneity.

His recent works include

, composed of over 4000 handmade clay beads, created by hundreds of communities across the U.S. and Canada to re-humanise the data of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; and

, which invited the public to create mirrored shields for water protectors opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at

.

Join Canuupa Hanska Luger for this inclusive event and learn about

, his planned occupation of Central Park, Plymouth, during the 2020

festival.

Book now for 'Cannupa Hanska Luger in conversation'Thursday 9th May, 3pm-4pm, £5Friends Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road BS6 6JEcontact [email protected] / 0117 944 3101

When It's Just Us & Disk 1,

serigraph by Terran Last Gun

THE YOUNG AMERICANS

21 MARCH - 8 JUNE 2019

Our exciting spring exhibition 

 is getting rave reviews from visitors:

"Beautiful, relevant and ground breaking art. A truly wonderful, unique and powerful exhibition and experience!"

Rosa

"What an eyeopening, intoxicating, exciting, illuminating exhibition".

Sefryn

"Absolutely fascinating, informative and beautiful art".

Rysha

"A really fabulous show of exciting, necessary, urgent and above all truly extraordinary work".

Angela

"Absolutely superlative".

David

If you have yet to visit 

, head over to Rainmaker Gallery for your free guided tour. The gallery is open Tuesday to Friday 10am - 5.30pm and 10am - 5pm on Saturday (excluding Easter weekend). 

See you soon!

Jo x