Artists in Residence

Sid Ford (they/them) is currently an art student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. They focus on abstractions of their real life fascinations in colorfully twisted compositions. Sid is an Inuk from Nain, Nunatsiavut who currently resides between Vancouver and St. Johns. They are passionate about their culture and the unlearning of colonial ideas, as well as the connection between humans and the universe. Everyday inspirations for Sid include inherited stories, chaotic emotions, cloud formations, spinning around and around, and the stimulation of any of the senses. They have a fond connection with nature, formerly employed at CLEAR researching plastic pollution in Nunatsiavut sea creatures, they hope to continue down the path of environmental healing in their future.

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Bryanna Brown is Inuk from Nunatsiavut, Labrador. She is the originator of the “Land Back Movement” to advocate for sovereignty in BIPOC communities, and to promote land ownership and reclamation as a means of environmental protection, and self-determination. Bryanna is a policy advisor, traditional storyteller and knowledge keeper who has held speaking engagements across Canada and internationally. She is on Indigenous Climate Action’s National Steering Committee. It is important to her that she continues to always advocate for the rights of women, Indigenous Peoples, environmental justice in relation to MMIWG2S and persons with disabilities (as someone with lived experience), with efforts to change public policy.

Eldred Allen (b. 1978, Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, NL) is a self-taught Inuk photographer who captures landscape and wildlife images of his community. His unique perspectives utilize both a handheld camera and UAV/drone. Allen had a solo exhibition “Resemblance” at The Rooms, St. John’s, Newfoundland. He has also participated in group exhibitions including “INUA” at the Winnipeg Art Gallery/Qaumajug; Paris Photo, France; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto; and La Guilde, Montréal. Allen has received grants from ArtsNL and the Canada Council for the Arts. His work is in private, corporate, and public collections such as RBC and the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Shirley Moorhouse lives in Goose Bay, Labrador. Her maternal Grandmother, Anana, named her E-Ye-I, translated from Inuktitut, meaning Eyes. As a young child she watched her extended family create clothing, objects and household items of form, function and beauty.

Today, her multimedia bodies of work reflect her pride in family and culture. With her minute hand stitching, fluid brush strokes and innovative uses of materials in her wall hangings or paintings, she displays her predecessor’s mastery of technique and process. Before creating any work, be it wall hanging, painting, poetry or a garden, Moorhouse mindfully offers the Multiverse prayers of thankfulness, peace, wholeness and healing. With a painterly technique, her signature wall hangings are meticulously hand-stitched and hand beaded on black wool. This deepest of black awakens senses to the depths and splendours of our clear northern skies. It whispers of eternity, wisps of memory, possibilities, of mysteries long forgotten and recalled, within our deep subconscious. Within quiet reflective spaces, these areas of liminality, Moorhouse explores states of consciousness beyond the ego bound. These are places of thresholds, transition and illumination.

She continually explores the flexibility and strengths of women and family. Her art opens dialogue on issues of colonisation, decolonization, reconciliation and responsible environmental stewardship. She highlights Labradors’ Indigenous citizens, their issues of land and water exploitation, exploration and development. She gently challenges you to be more aware of Labradors’ ever changing natural, social and geopolitical boundaries. Moorhouse, through her art, offers gifts of spirit, heart and mind. She strives for inner transformation and transpersonal changes with hopes that it reflects and is softly absorbed by her audience. Currently, Shirley is a Master Fine Arts student, Visual Arts, Memorial University, Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, NL.

Belinda grew up spending her winters in in Rocky Cove, and summers at Tikeraluk Island. She moved to the community of Rigolet in 1967. She has learned to sew grass as a little girl, and continues the tradition today. Belinda says that sewing grass is important to her because it's something that was passed onto her by her family, and she also finds it a relaxing pastime that she enjoys. Belinda has been sewing grass for over 60 years and has completed hundreds of grass items. She is known for her extraordinary grass pieces and takes pride in her work. She hopes to pass the art of grass work onto future generations.

My name is Emelia Angnatok and I am an Inuk from Nain, Labrador! I am currently attending Memorial University of Newfoundland and reside in St. John’s during the academic year, returning to Nain in the Spring/ Summer. I enjoy beading and love being able to create art through beads. I am super excited to be apart of this residency and can’t wait to show what I create!  

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