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Ed Archie NoiseCat, Neo-abOriginal Artist of the First Nations
Ed Archie NoiseCat, a man who has carved a niche for himself as a sculptor, a jeweler and a graphic artist, embodies the creativity and originality that his name implies.Does the word Neo-abOriginal seem a little unusual? It should! Like the man the word is used to describe Neo-abOriginal art is a unique term for some of the most innovative and creative artistic works of our generation.
Born in 1959 at Williams Lake, British Colombia, he grew up among the people of his mother’s family, the Canim Lake Band of Shuswap Indians. He began his artistic career as a printmaker after studying at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design. Printmaking led him to New York and a career as a fine art lithographer, eventually launching him out into various different mediums and the eye of the international community.
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Since his graduation in the early 80’s NoiseCat has developed a reputation for himself carving masks, rattles, panels and puppets symbolizing the spirituality and mythology of his people, often incorporating the transformational elements that tie together the spiritual world and the physical.
At Portland’s first Indian Art Northwest he took first prize with a free standing cedar screen and won a Midwest public art commission with a four foot high mask honoring Little Crow. In 2002 he was featured by Native People Magazine as one of the top five market artists of his generation, heralded as “one of the hottest artists on the Indian market circuit today.”
Among the First
Always anxious to stretch his horizons a bit farther Ed Archie NoiseCat has stepped out into the arena of working with silver, gold and semi-precious stones to create sculptural jewelry.He has also been among the first to combine traditional Japanese woodworking techniques with the native structural forms of the longhouse to create “art furniture” that is making a huge splash on the art world.
Despite his current celebrity status NoiseCat has not lost touch with the land and people of his youth. At the 14th annual Oscar Howe Memorial Lecture he told listeners that he enjoyed sharing the knowledge of his people’s way of life through his stories and his work as a way to preserve a culture that is far too easily lost in today’s modern world.
Through his pieces the culture and history of the people of the First Nations has the opportunity to live on.
NoiseCat also took the time in his speech to reach out to young artists like he himself once was, encouraging them to take advantage of the resources around them and not to lose sight of the importance of concentrating on their studies.
All too often young artists, particularly young artists of aboriginal descent, lose track of the importance of their academic careers and find themselves washed into the background.
By following the footsteps of Ed Archie NoiseCat these young men and women have an example and path laid out before them in gleaming color to help them take their place in the wide world of First Nations Art.
From a small town in British Colombia to galleries all across the continent, Ed Archie NoiseCat has brought his work and the culture of the people of the First Nations into the public eye.
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