EMILY CARR AWARD WINNER: LUKE PARNELL
Luke Parnell is this year's recipient of the Winsor Gallery Graduate Student Award. Largely concerned with the historical trajectory of the Pacific Northwest, his works engage closely with issues of representation, stereotype, and cultural identity.
A Brief History of Northwest Coast Design, 2009 acrylic on wood, comprised of 11 planks |
In his artist statement, Parnell sheds some light on the concept behind A Brief History of Northwest Coast Design:
"The
traditional arts of the Northwest Coast were a convergence of intangible and
material wealth. The intangible was
things like rights and privileges [...]. The material wealth
was the objects that represented those rights [...]. My artworks, which I
consider the material wealth of our contemporary culture, explore our
contemporary intangible wealth.
My
methodology is to protect cultural knowledge but to still create art that is
not devoid of meaning, I’ve done that by showing that my work is part of a
lineage and not a break from “tradition”."
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