We Ship. Call for details. 289-897-8444

306 Canboro Rd, Ridgeville, ON L0S 1M0, CA 289-897-8444 hamiltonsofpelham@cogeco.net
  • Home
  • Shop
  • About Us
  • Mova Globes
  • Garden Pots
  • Woodstock Chimes
  • Maxine Noel
  • Shona Art
  • Gifts
  • Cretan Pots
  • Weldlife and Metal
  • Artist Profiles
  • Sam Toft
  • Events
  • Garden Spinners
  • Frans Rood and Raku
  • Spanish Pots
  • Basic Spirit
  • Ne'Qwa
  • More
    • Home
    • Shop
    • About Us
    • Mova Globes
    • Garden Pots
    • Woodstock Chimes
    • Maxine Noel
    • Shona Art
    • Gifts
    • Cretan Pots
    • Weldlife and Metal
    • Artist Profiles
    • Sam Toft
    • Events
    • Garden Spinners
    • Frans Rood and Raku
    • Spanish Pots
    • Basic Spirit
    • Ne'Qwa
  • Home
  • Shop
  • About Us
  • Mova Globes
  • Garden Pots
  • Woodstock Chimes
  • Maxine Noel
  • Shona Art
  • Gifts
  • Cretan Pots
  • Weldlife and Metal
  • Artist Profiles
  • Sam Toft
  • Events
  • Garden Spinners
  • Frans Rood and Raku
  • Spanish Pots
  • Basic Spirit
  • Ne'Qwa
Hamiltons of Pelham
Shop Indigenous Collection

Maxine Noel

About Maxine Noel

 

Maxine Noel is an internationally renowned Native visual artist and mentor with a career spanning more than 35 years.

Born on the Birdtail Reserve in Manitoba, Maxine Noel has lived in  Stratford with her daughter for more than 20 years. She believes that  there is a common bond that links all cultures of the world, and she  continues to work tirelessly to bridge the gap between Native and  non-Native communities. Her dedication, commitment, strength and  self-determination make her a valuable role model.

Maxine works tirelessly and selflessly for others throughout our  communities. She was one of the first artists to work with the Canada  and Africa Village Twinning Programs, and she is a founding board member  of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation [now Indspire]. She  has lectured at the Saskatchewan School of Fine Arts, the University of  Western Ontario and the Ontario College of Art. She has also spoken at  schools and to service and other groups throughout Canada, encouraging  young people to engage in the work of building strong supportive  communities.

 Maxine signs her work with her Sioux name, Ioyan Mani, a name given to her by her grandmother. It Find out moremeans “Walks Beyond.” s care in  remote and underserviced First Nations communities in Canada. Proceeds  from the sale of items such as an porcelan mug featuring Maxine’s  painting Spirit of the Woodlands, produced by Oscardo, are being donated to this much-needed program.

Currently, Maxine and other First Nations artists are working with  Artists Against Racism on their EAGLES RISING project to raise awareness  of the persistence of racism targeting Indigenous peoples in Canada.  This project will involve a Canada-wide campaign of billboard and bus  shelter advertisements featuring the work of First Nations artists to  highlight this ongoing problem.

"My art is the way I offer healing to the worlds around me, worlds  sitting so often on the cusp of destruction and brutality. These worlds  are dangerous and beautiful places, sacred to us all, and so their  health and their healing are responsibilities we all must take up, each  of us finding the work we need to do, and then doing it well and fully. I  am honoured by my appointment to the Order of Canada, an honour I share  with my people, and with all peoples doing the work of making a better  world, with those who came before, and with those still to come."
Maxine Noel
 Maxine signs her work with her Sioux name, Ioyan Mani, a name given to her by her grandmother. It means “Walks Beyond.” 

Not Forgotten

 

Not Forgotten - Maxine Noel - Ioyan Mani, Sioux Artist

Our mothers and daughters, our sisters and aunties and grandmothers.  Our women are our heart and our spirit, always honoured, never  forgotten. I am Dakota Sioux, a woman and mother, and an artist. These  are inseparable facets of who I am and how I live in the world. That  world, the world we all live and move in, is a place of great and  terrible beauty, of wonder, and of tragedy. In this painting I speak to  that wonder and beauty and tragedy.

To capture both the wonders and the tragedy, I wanted to include  motifs which connect with all the places our peoples live. Turning first  to the West Coast peoples, I am honoured to have been allowed to  include the moon image of my friend, artist and visionary Roy Henry  Vickers, an image I first encountered in his illustrations for Dave  Bouchard’s The Elders Are Watching. From the North, I incorporated the  image of Sedna, the source of all the creatures of the sea. I have  always been drawn to the shell and bead work of the Maliseet and other  East Coast peoples and in this painting have echoed the fluidity and  grace of their compelling designs. And then, the two feathers, acknowledging the Métis, and the peoples of the grasslands and woodlands, of the plains and the forests.

Finally, the floating figures throughout the painting are the spirits  and the presence of the missing and murdered women. Missing but never  lost. Always present, always remembered.


~ Maxine Noel/Ioyan Mani

For years, our communities have pointed to the high number of missing  and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada. Although Aboriginal  females represent only four per cent of the Canadian female population,  they account for 16% of murders committed in Canada. Aboriginal women  and girls in Canada are especially vulnerable to violence that results  in them becoming a missing or murdered statistic. It is time for this to  end.

 The Native Women’s Association of Canada is dedicated to demanding a  National Inquiry and a National Action Plan to address the underlying  root causes and inequities which create the terrible burden of violence  carried by Aboriginal women and girls.

 Proceeds of the "Not Forgotten Collection" will help support the  Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) -- a voice for the missing  and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada.

Shop Now

Copyright © 2018 Hamiltons of Pelham - All Rights Reserved.

Powered by GoDaddy

  • Shop
  • About Us
  • Cretan Pots
  • Vietnamese Pots
  • Garden Spinners
  • Refund Policy
  • Didier Lourenço

This website uses cookies.

We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.

Accept