Catherine Blackburn
Catherine Blackburn was born in Patuanak Saskatchewan, of Dene and European ancestry and is a member of the English River First Nation. She is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweller, whose narrative work often addresses Canada’s settler-colonialism. Through stitchwork, she explores Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization and representation. Her work grounds itself in the Indigenous feminine and is bound through the ancestral love that stitching suggests. Her work has been exhibited in notable national and international exhibitions.
Image: Detail, Catherine Blackburn, Scooped, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.
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Billboard on Shaw by Catherine Blackburn
March 27, 2025 - July 31, 2025Critical Distance is pleased to present Scooped and Scattered, a public art billboard by English River First Nation artist Catherine Blackburn. Presented in-gallery as part of our 2023 exhibition Materialized (curated by Ariel Smith and co-presented with Native Women in the Arts), this re-installation of Blackburn’s work is to celebrate the recent release of CDCC’s Access Working Group (AWG) Report, and to honour Blackburn’s participation in creative access consultation and production in collaboration with Disabled arts workers, community members, and Critical Distance.
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April 21, 2023 - June 3, 2023Curated by Ariel Smith and featuring works by Joi T. Arcand, Celeste Pedri-Spade, Catherine Blackburn and Nadya Kwandibens, Materialized examines themes of intergenerational memory, familial narrative, and decolonization through artworks combining portrait photography with elements from adornment arts, textiles, sculpture, and customary Indigenous art practices.
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