curated by Taylor Simard
Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank
Dec 15, 2023 – June 15, 2024
Exhibition
Jonathan Hobin, Mother Goose, 2009, Cibachrome photograph Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Robert Houle, Tribal Names from Mohawk Summer, 1991 Collage: computer print and carbon copy on paper, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Victoria Mamnguqsualuk Legend of the Two-Headed Dog, 1994, charcoal, chalk pastel etc. on paper, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Diana Thorneycroft, A People’s History (Louis Riel), 2010, Digital print, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Pudlo Pudlat, Arrival of the Prophet, 1983, Lithograph, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Noboru Sawai Great Tribunal, 1973 Woodcut and intaglio Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Pitseolak Ashoona, Kaujajuk, 1977, Stonecut and stencil, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Nomi Kaplan Brooklyn Illuminations #7, 1985, Colour photograph, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Herzl Kashetsky, Awaiting the First Touch, 1982, Coloured pencil on paper, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, Not A Care: 1907, 2000, Colour photograph Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Kim Moodie Mettle Rain, 2006 India ink on plasticized Japanese rice paper Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
Shawna McLeod, LFU 1, 2005, Mixed media on paper, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
William Noah, Angakuq Dancer, 1993, Ink, crayon, etc. on paper, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Carolina Hernandez-Hernandez, La même fin, 2005, Oil on canvas, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
Pedro Isztin Nueva, Amenia II, Honduras, 2004, Colour photograph Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services.
Jana Sasaki ,”Tabi” and “Socks”, 2009, Etching, Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
About the Exhibition
Number of artworks: 16
Stories We Tell approaches storytelling as a part of our everyday lives — the stories created when we listen, learn from, and share our history and culture, both personal and collective, with friends and relatives. The desire to share stories is part of human nature, and this exhibition explores the different ways artists, whether from ancestors or through myths, experience and create stories, either re-telling history or recounting new stories from their own experience.
Stories We Tell features artworks from the Canada Council Art Bank collection by artists from diverse communities across the country and highlights the importance of interactions with different stories to build our own.
About the Curator
Taylor Simard is a practicum student from Carleton University where she studies humanities and art history. She has conducted research on re-telling stories through a postcolonial lens and continues to explore these themes through this exhibition.
About the Art Bank
Since 1972, the Canada Council Art Bank has made contemporary artwork available to a wide public across the country through three programs: corporate art rental, loans to museums, and outreach. With more than 17,000 artworks by over 3,000 artists, the Art Bank has the largest collection of contemporary Canadian art anywhere. It houses paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and prints by emerging and established artists, including a significant number of Indigenous artworks.
Des histoires à raconter
Nombre d’œuvres d’art : 16
Des histoires à raconter envisage la mise en récit comme faisant partie intégrante de notre quotidien, que l’on pense aux histoires créées lorsque nous apprenons sur notre culture et notre héritage individuels et collectifs ou à la manière dont nous les transmettons à nos proches. Le désir de partager nos histoires fait partie de la nature humaine. Cette exposition explore les différentes manières dont les artistes vivent et créent leurs histoires, que ce soit en transmettant des histoires fondées sur des récits ancestraux ou sur des mythes, ou en en racontant de nouvelles qui sont tirées de leur propre vécu.
Des histoires à raconter présente des œuvres de la collection de la Banque d’art du Conseil des arts créées par des artistes de partout au pays. L’exposition met de l’avant l’importance que revêtent les interactions avec différentes histoires dans la construction de la nôtre.
La commissaire
Taylor Simard est une stagiaire qui étudie les sciences humaines et l’histoire de l’art à l’Université Carleton. Cette exposition s’inscrit dans la suite d’une exploration amorcée avec ses recherches sur la transmission d’histoires dans un cadre postcolonial.
La Banque d’art
Depuis 1972, la Banque d’art du Conseil des arts rend l’art contemporain accessible à un large public d’un bout à l’autre du pays par l’entremise de ses trois programmes : la location institutionnelle d’œuvres d’art, les prêts à des musées et le rayonnement. Avec plus de 17 000 œuvres de plus de 3 000 artistes, la Banque d’art compte la plus importante collection d’art canadien contemporain au monde. Elle comprend des peintures, des sculptures, des dessins, des photographies et des estampes d’artistes en émergence ou à la carrière établie, dont un grand nombre d’œuvres d’artistes autochtones.