December 2006

Artist Jude Norris (Cree/Anishinabe) will exhibit in 2007 at the Campbell River and District Public Art Gallery in Campbell River, British Columbia, and in 2008 at Harcourt House in Edmonton, Alberta. She works in several media including video and sculpture. Her videos are often non-narrative meditations with unusual voice-overs, such as A Horse Called Memory and Lullaby. Her video Red Buffalo Skydive, an animation with a story told in voice-over, has screened at 23 festivals, premiering in 1999 at the IMAGeNation Aboriginal Film and Video Festival in Vancouver, Canada, and most recently screening at the 2006 Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival in Sydney, Australia. In 2006, her solo exhibition "Scars of Gold and Other Colours" at Trane Studio in Toronto, Ontario, featured canvases that she slashed and sewed back together, in a representation of the healing process. In 2005, she was an artist-in-residence at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts in Toronto, Ontario. She served on the 2004 - 2005 planning committee for the Aboriginal gallery at the Provincial Museum of Alberta. Norris has studied integrated media at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, Ontario, and studied art at Middlesex University and Kensington & Chelsea College, in London, England. Norris lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Screened by NMAI

• A Horse Called Memory (2005) director

Image credit: Jude Norris - courtesy of the filmmaker