{{short description|Canadian artist (1961)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Mary Anne Barkhouse | image = | image_size = 200px | Alias = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1961}} | birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = Jewellery maker and Sculptor | training = Ontario College of Art, 1991 | movement = | notable_works = }}
'''Mary Anne Barkhouse''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (born 1961) is a jeweller and sculptor residing in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada. She belongs to the Nimpkish band of the Kwakiutl First Nation.<ref name="AbCurColl " >{{cite web|title=Mary Anne Barkhouse|url=http://www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org/acc-gallery/mary-anne-barkhouse-exhibition/|work=Aboriginal Curatorial Collective|accessdate=30 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817115208/http://www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org/acc-gallery/mary-anne-barkhouse-exhibition/|archive-date=17 August 2014|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Barkhouse was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1961.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hill|first1=Greg A.|last2=Hopkins|first2=Candice|last3=Lalonde|first3=Christine|title=Sakahan: International Indigenous Art|date=2013|publisher=National Gallery of Canada|location=Ottawa|isbn=978-0-88884-912-0|page=155}}</ref> She is related to several artists from the Kwakwaka'wakw art tradition, including Ellen Neel, Mungo Martin, and Charlie James.<ref name=UBCDysart >{{cite book|title=Old Punk Rockers Never Die, They Just Do Installation Art|date=2012|publisher=University of British Columbia|location=Vancouver, B.C.|url=http://moa.ubc.ca/experience/resources/pdf/sourcebooks/Mary_Anne_Barkhouse.pdf|author=Dysart, Jennifer|author2=Bob, Tanya|author3=Barkhouse, Mary Anne|accessdate=30 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323001533/http://moa.ubc.ca/experience/resources/pdf/sourcebooks/Mary_Anne_Barkhouse.pdf|archive-date=23 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was a student of metalsmith Lois Betteridge.<ref name=UBCDysart /> In the 1980s Barkhouse played bass with the Ottawa, Ontario punk band The Restless Virgins.<ref name="Warnica_NatPost " >{{cite news |last1=Warnica |first1=Richard |title=Toronto sculpture squirrels worship a giant stone acorn: 'Why wouldn't they?' |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/0610-nat-squirrel |accessdate=25 June 2018 |work=National Post |date=19 June 2015}}</ref>
==Career== Barkhouse began her professional career in the 1990s<ref name="Warnica_NatPost " /> and has since explored contemporary environmental and indigenous concerns, often incorporating animal imagery.<ref name=UBCDysart />
One of Barkhouse's most significant works is ''Harvest'' (2009), a mixed media sculpture created for the Muhheakantuck in Focus exhibition at Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY. The sculpture portrays the names of indigenous groups from the Hudson Valley on porcelain objects arranged on a European-style table. A bronze coyote appears to pull at the tablecloth, giving the impression that the table service may topple to the ground.<ref name=wavehill >{{cite news|last=Genocchio|first=Benjamin|title=The River's Meaning to Indians, Before and After Hudson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/nyregion/06artwe.html|accessdate=30 March 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 September 2009}}</ref> The sculpture has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada.<ref name="Koffler_2017 " />
Barkhouse is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.<ref name=RCA1880 >{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=2025-09-11|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=May 26, 2011 }}</ref>
==Public Sculpture and Installation== thumb|Beaver sculpture, part of ''Echo''. Joel Weeks Park, Toronto
A major early installation of Barkhouse's is ''Lichen'' (1998, McMichael Canadian Art Collection), a collaboration with Michael Belmore.<ref name="Knopf2008 " >{{cite book|author=Kerstin Knopf|title=Aboriginal Canada Revisited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-CyfD-Exc4C&pg=PA172|year=2008|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|isbn=978-0-7766-0679-8|pages=171–172}}</ref> It includes several bronze sculptures of wolves, and a transit shelter with a poster of a raven.<ref name="McMichael_Outdoor " >{{cite web |title=Outdoors |url=http://mcmichael.com/collection/outdoor-art/ |website=mcmichael.com |publisher=McMichael Canadian Art Collection |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, ON, owns ''Covenant'' (2012), a sculpture of two coyotes encountering each other.<ref name=mcmaster>{{cite web|title=New Public Art: Mary Anne Barkhouse sculpture|url=http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/new-public-art-mary-anne-barkhouse-sculpture/|work=McMaster Museum of Art Blog|publisher=McMaster University Museum of Art|accessdate=30 March 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140330193034/http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/new-public-art-mary-anne-barkhouse-sculpture/|archivedate=30 March 2014}}</ref>
The Canadian Museum of History installed '''namaxsala (To Travel in a Boat Together)'' (2013), a bronze and copper sculpture of a wolf in a canoe, staring across the Ottawa River at Parliament Hill. The work was inspired by a story told to Belmore by her grandfather.<ref name="CBC_2013 " >{{cite news |title=Wolf in canoe sculpture unveiled at civilization museum {{!}} CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/wolf-in-canoe-sculpture-unveiled-at-civilization-museum-1.1829491 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |work=CBC |date=13 September 2013}}</ref>
''Echo'', installed in 2015 in Joel Weeks Park in Toronto, features three separate cast bronze sculptures. They include four squirrels worshiping an acorn, a beaver, and a fox.<ref name="Warnica_NatPost " />
===Selected exhibitions=== *''Exposed: Native Women Photographers Group Show,'' Niroquois Gallery, Brantford, Ontario, 1991.<ref>{{Cite book|title=AlterNative: contemporary photo compositions|last1=Hill|first1=Lynn A|last2=McMichael Canadian Art Collection|date=1995|publisher=McMichael Canadian Art Collection|isbn=9780777841280|location=Kleinburg, Ont.|language=English|oclc=35930990}}</ref> *''Shades of Red'', Pow Wow Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 1991.<ref>{{Cite book|title=AlterNative : contemporary photo compositions|last=Hill, Lynn A. (Lynn Ann), 1961-|date=1995|publisher=McMichael Canadian Art Collection|isbn=0777841282|oclc=35930990}}</ref> *''Early Morning Wolf Stretching Exercises'' (1993) "Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy." Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.<ref name=UBCDysart /> *''Sanctuary'', Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario, 2005.<ref name="Akimbo_2005 " >{{cite web |title=Akimbo - Events - Mary Anne Barkhouse & Michael Belmore open May 18 @ Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound |url=http://www.akimbo.ca/1001 |website=Akimbo |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en-us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626001425/http://www.akimbo.ca/1001 |archive-date=26 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *''Beaver Tales: Canadian Art and Design'', 2008, Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Ontario. *''Reins of Chaos'', 2008, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa Ontario. *''Boreal Baroque, Mary Anne Barkhouse'', 2009, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario; Espanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta.<ref name="Boreal Baroque">{{cite book |title=Mary Anne Barkhouse : Boreal Baroque |date=2007 |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery |isbn=978-0-921500-85-8}}</ref> *''Close Encounters:'' ''The Next 400 Years'', 2011, Group exhibition featuring 33 Indigenous artists from Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Finland, and Brazil, Plug IN ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba.<ref>Garneau, David. "Traditional Futures." Border Crossings 30.2 (2011): 72-78. Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 23 Sept. 2015</ref> *''What is Land'', 2012, Tree Museum in Gravenhurst, Ontario (2012).<ref name="TreeMuseum_2011 " >{{cite web |title=2011-2012 Catalogue |url=https://www.thetreemuseum.ca/media/pdf/2011-12_TM_cat.pdf |publisher=Tree Museum |accessdate=25 June 2018}}</ref> *''Facing the Animal'', 2012, Julie Andreyev, Bill Burns, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Vancouver, B.C. *''Sakahan: International Indigenous Art'', 2013, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. *''Mary Anne Barkhouse: Le rêve aux loups'' (retrospective), 2017, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto.<ref name="Koffler_2017 " >{{cite book |last1=Rudder |first1=Jennifer |title=Mary Anne Barkhouse: Le rêve aux loups {{!}} Koffler Centre of the Arts |date=June 2017 |publisher=The Koffler Centre of the Arts |url=http://kofflerarts.org/publication/2017/07/13/mary-anne-barkhouse-le-reve-aux-loups-2/ |accessdate=25 June 2018}}</ref> The show went on tour with additional works created for the Esker Foundation exhibition in Calgary, Alberta.<ref name="Esker " >{{cite web |title=Animals in the Parlour at the Esker Foundation |url=https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/exhibitions/animals-in-the-parlour-at-the-esker-foundation |website=www.gallery.ca |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> *''Hearts of Our People'': ''Native Women Artists'', 2019, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. *''Opimihaw'', 2021, Wanuskewin Gallery, Saskatoon, SK *''Ndishnikaaz | Nugwa’am | My name is'', 2025, Art Windsor Essex, Windsor, Ontario.<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://artwindsoressex.ca/exhibitions/mary-anne-barkhouse-ndishnikaaz-nugwaam-my-name-is |website=artwindsoressex.ca |publisher=Art Winsor Essex |access-date=11 September 2025}}</ref>
==Collections== Barkhouse's work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada (''Harvest'', 2009 and ''Sovereign'', 2007), Mendel Art Gallery, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (''Grace'', 2007),<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=The RMG: Public Art|url=http://rmg.on.ca/public-art/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=The Robert McLaughlin Gallery}}</ref> the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Art Gallery of Guelph, Banff Centre for the Arts, Ontario Archives (''Persevere'', 2006) and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.<ref name="TreeMuseum_2011 " />
== Bibliography == * Ahlberg, Yohe J, and Teri Greeves. ''Hearts of Our People. Native Women Artists''. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hearts of our people. Native women artists.|last1=Ahlberg Yohe|first1=Jill|last2=Greeves|first2=Teri|date=2019|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=9780295745794|location=Seattle|language=English|oclc=1105604814}}</ref> * Hill, Greg A, Candice Hopkins, and Christine Lalonde. ''Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art''. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2013.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sakahàn: international indigenous art|last1=Hill|first1=Greg A|last2=Hopkins|first2=Candice|last3=Lalonde|first3=Christine|last4=National Gallery of Canada|date=2013|publisher=National Gallery of Canada|isbn=9780888849120|location=Ottawa|language=English|oclc=822646597}}</ref>
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