Carrie Allison

Carrie Allison

Carrie Allison is a a nêhiýaw/Cree, Métis and mixed-European descent multidisciplinary visual artist born and raised on unceded and unsurrendered Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, with maternal roots in maskotewisipiy (High Prairie, Alberta), Treaty 8. Situated in K’jipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia) since 2010, her practice responds to her maternal nêhiýaw/Cree and Métis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss and acts of reclaiming, resilience, resistance, and activism, while also thinking through notions of allyship, kinship and visiting. Her practice is rooted in research and pedagogical discourses, combined with my growing and evolving relationship with the land. Her work seeks to reclaim, remember, recreate and celebrate her ancestry through visual discussions often utilizing beading, embroidery, handmade paper, watercolour, websites, QR codes, audio, video and most recently animation. Old and new technologies are combined to tell stories of the land, continuance, growth, and of healing.