Join us for a fascinating in-person artist talk at the Gallery with Marika Swan, as she delves into her practice as a printmaker.
Marika is one of the contemporary artists featured in our GEORGE CLUTESI: ḥašaḥʔap / ʔaapḥii / ʕc̓ik / ḥaaʔaksuqƛ / ʔiiḥmisʔap exhibition.
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🔴 About the Artist 🔴
ƛ̓upinup Marika Echachis Swan is a mother, artist, and community arts organizer of mixed Tla-o-qui-aht, Scottish, and Irish descent currently based out of her home territory surrounding Tofino, BC. Her main creative practice explores woodblock printmaking, often layered with other visual arts techniques such as carving, stencil and photography.
Marika has spent the last decade researching the vast bodies of ancestral belongings and materials from her community that are now held in museums and institutions all over the world. Through engaging with these ancestral treasures, Marika has studied traditional Tla-o-qui-aht form and style extensively.
Following in the wake of artists like her father Joe David who took such sincere care in reviving the purity and perfection of the classic Nuu-chah-nulth traditional form, Marika continues to push the art form into new spaces. Still rooted in Nuu-chah-nulth world views, her work speaks directly to the stories that are relevant to her community now.
