Thursday 9th May Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk

Thursday 9th May Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk

May 07, 2019

Artist reception, Thursday 6pm - 8pm

Please join us for a special artist reception to welcome visiting artist

and his family to Bristol this 

Thursday 6pm - 8pm

 at

, for the official opening of 

 exhibition. 

Cannupa is one of sixteen outstanding artists whose work is featured in the exhibition. Building on the legacy of groundbreaking indigenous artists before them, these young Americans are unapologetically forward looking, embracing influences from traditional Native American design and 18th-century portraiture to contemporary street art and Japanese anime. 

“I am motivated to reclaim and reframe a more accurate version of 21st century Indigenous culture and its powerful global relevance.” CHL

The Weapon Is Sharing (This Machine Kills Fascists)

Cannupa Hanska Luger, 2017

Artist Talk  - Thursday 9 May, 3pm - 4pm

Join artist activist Cannupa Hanska Luger in an open discussion this Thursday afternoon from 3pm - 4pm at Friends Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road BS6 6JE.

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.

The Young Americans exhibition includes ceramic boombox sculptures from his series

and the installation

Cannupa writes of this work

"Our contemporary tools of documenting are made out of materials which will not sustain our stories long term. And so impressing onto clay current narratives from Indigenous perspective, as documented on social media in instances such as at Standing Rock, means these stories now last forever......These objects mirror the decayed aesthetic of the artefact to inspire institutions who collect our sacred objects to embed this narrative into their basements and cabinets, letting these pieces join our relatives, so that our ancestors may know what we as Indigenous peoples are currently experiencing.....This work aims to let them know how we are hearing them, and we are connecting."

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

Wellcome Collection, London

Also this month, if you are in London, please come along to a free talk that I will be giving at Wellcome Collection:

See you on Thursday!

Jo xx