CLIENT EXHIBITION: Featuring Rosalie Favell’s “Family Legacy” at the WAG for National Indigenous Peoples Day 2021

Using photographs, lenticular imagery and paintings, contemporary artist Rosalie Favell pieces together the multiple, intersecting histories of Winnipeg and the Indigenous peoples of the Red River settlement.
~Winnipeg Art Gallery

This past April, Family Legacy, a solo exhibition on the work of artist Rosalie Favell  (www.rosaliefavell.com), opened up at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG). The works in the exhibition are a creative labour of love building on Rosalie’s previous series such, from an early age revisited (2014-2016), Closer to Heaven (2012), Wish You Were Here (2010), and Longing and Not Belonging (1998), where she draws inspiration from her paternal grandmother and parents’ extensive photographic archives. The new work is rich with stories reaching back into her Métis family history.

FROM THE WAG:

Take a tour through Rosalie Favell’s Family Legacy with the titular artist through this video! Using photographs, lenticular imagery, and paintings, contemporary artist Rosalie Favell pieces together the multiple, intersecting histories of Winnipeg and the Indigenous peoples of the Red River settlement in this exhibition, which traces Favell’s family history to before the 1700s.

Congratulations to Rosalie! It has been moving to see her exhibition process and the final documentation of the installation in her hometown.

The exhibition continues until September 12, 2021. For more information visit the WAG website.

AND IN THE NEWS…

210503: The test of time: Pair of WAG exhibitions commemorate, examine city’s foundations, Winnipeg Free Press