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Biography
Teresa Marshall was born in 1962 in Truro, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. She is a multimedia artist, which includes sculptures and installations. She is associated with the First Nations people and was raised on the Millbrook Reserve as well as on a military base. She comes from two cultures, Mi'kmaq on her mom's side and Canadian on her dad's. Her works show and describe the affects of racism and neocolonialism on the First Nations people. Coming from two different backgrounds, Marshall has the ability to show both the indigenous and non-native perspectives of her native community and how they are affected.
Education
Marshall's father was in the military and because of this she went to school on the bases. This is where she would go to school during the year to learn her normal education and then would go to the reserve during the summer. During this time she would wonder why the different communities were always going against each other. The school on base would describe the stereotypical Native American attire and culture, but when she would go to the reserve, what she saw was completely different.
After primary and secondary education Marshall studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Then after her time at NSCAD, she continued to study theater at Dalhousie University.
Artworks
Hide and Seek The Souls You Keep Locked Away in God's Closet
This piece is from Marshall's exhibition Red Rising Hoods at the Cape Breton University Art Gallery. The art piece shows "nine tiny coffins open to reveal red shrouded figures, each buried within a pane of glass in a church window." The red figures represent the Mi'kmaq people, during the scalping bounties, who died for the hunting of their scalps for a sum of money. Then over the window, shutters hang and close to represent the lost memory the Canadian government has for the crime against the First Nations people.
Elitekey
This piece was located at the National Gallery of Canada Land, Spirit, and Power Exhibition. For this installation Marshall created three statues that represent the absence of communication between the Canadian Army and the Mohawk people in 1990. The installation includes three statues made of concrete. One of a half raised Canadian flag that had a cut out of the maple leaf. Diagonal to it was a figure wearing traditional clothing of the Native group, representing a person of that culture but had no body parts with the clothing. Between the two sculptures was a canoe that for the Mohawks was an important symbol of hope. However, when the conflict in 1990 happened between the Mohawks and the Canadian government, that symbol of hope turned into something that would be used against them. Marshall believes that the Canadian government has suppressed the First Nations people and has done a great injustice to them. Which is why the statue of the flag shows it half raised with the missing maple leaf.
Exhibitions
- Red Rising Hoods: Cape Breton University Art Gallery (2018)
- 75 Years of Collecting: First Nations: Myths and Realities: Vancouver Art Gallery (2006)
- Recollect: Vancouver Art Gallery (1999-2000)
- Topographies: Aspects of Recent B.C. Art: Vancouver Art Gallery (1996-1997)
- Band Strands: Thunder Bay Art Gallery (1997)
- Land, Spirit, Power: The National Gallery of Canada (1992)
Collections
- Vancouver Art Gallery
- Thunder Bay Art Gallery
- Cape Breton University Art Gallery
- National Gallery of Canada
Honors and Awards
- Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship (After The Storm) 2001
References
- Yumpu.com. “Teresa Marshall - 75 Years of Collecting - Vancouver Art Gallery.” Yumpu.com, www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/19132162/teresa-marshall-75-years-of-collecting-vancouver-art-gallery.
- Diana Nemiroff on Teresa Marshall, ccca.concordia.ca/c/writing/n/nemiroff/nem005t.html.
- “2001 Fellowship: After The Storm.” Eiteljorg Museum, 16 Aug. 1970, contemporaryartfellowship.eiteljorg.org/past-contemporary-art-fellowships/2001-fellowship-after-the-storm/.
- Patterson, Elizabeth. “Teresa Marshall's Art Examines Uncomfortable History: Cape Breton Post.” Lifestyles | Cape Breton Post, 3 Oct. 2018, www.capebretonpost.com/lifestyles/teresa-marshalls-art-examines-uncomfortable-history-246823/.
- Ord , Douglas. “The National Gallery of Canada.” Google Books, Google, books.google.com/books?id=lIUPghtfGyIC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA392&dq=Teresa%2BMarshall&pg=PA390#v=onepage&q=Teresa%20Marshall&f=false.
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- ^ Yumpu.com. "Teresa Marshall - 75 Years of Collecting - Vancouver Art Gallery". yumpu.com. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- ^ Patterson, Elizabeth. "Teresa Marshall's art examines uncomfortable history | Cape Breton Post". www.capebretonpost.com. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- "Diana Nemiroff on Teresa Marshall". ccca.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- ^ "2001 Fellowship: After The Storm". Eiteljorg Museum. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- ^ Ord, Douglas; Canada (Ottawa), National Gallery of (2003). The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-2509-2.