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Michael Belmore commissioned for The Nogojiwanong Project

Artist Michael Belmore has been selected to create the public art piece for The Nogojiwanong Project. Nogojiwanong is an Anishinaabe word meaning “place at the foot of the rapids,” is the name given to the gathering place at the bottom of a turbulent stretch of the Otonabee River, which would later become Peterborough.

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Micheal Belmore Featured in Vie des Arts

Michael Belmore is featured in Vie des Arts magazine. The review by Marie Perrault details the importance of copper in artist Michael Belmore's practice. 'Anchored in matter, it testifies to the close links of dependence that humans maintain with the Earth, as much as it denounces the impact of colonialism on matter, copper, stone, in the long course of history.'

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Michael Belmore, Ursula Johnson and Camille Turner - LandMarks works in Border Crossings Magazine

Border Crossings report on AGNS exhibition “Sense of Site”. Artists took different approaches to presenting versions of their “Landmarks 2017/Repères 2017” site-specific projects. The original project was set in national parks and historical sites across Canada, featuring work by Michael Belmore, Ursula Johnson, Camille Turner and other artists.

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Michael Belmore Carved Erratics, Public Art Installation at Woodsy Park

Concord Park Place's Woodsy Park to Feature Public Art, Ebb and Flow by Sculptor Michael Belmore. Large erratic boulders, unearthed during construction were carved on site. In embellishing these stones Belmore speaks to the stone's original state of liquid fire, and the ebb and flow effect of ancient glacial forces of ice and water.

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Michael Belmore, thunder sky turbulent water in Canadian Art Agenda

Canadian Art's Agenda report on Michael Belmore’s solo exhibition, 'thunder sky turbulent water' at Central Art Garage. Work resembling the hood of a classic Firebird Trans-Am is cut and shaped out of huge sheets of copper and suspended from the ceiling with mechanic’s hoist, representing the upper and lower worlds in the Anishinaabe universe.

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MICHAEL BELMORE FEATURED IN CANADIAN ART, LANDMARKS 2017

Four distant sites. One glacial history. That’s the context for Ontario-based artist Michael Belmore’s Coalescence, a multi-part sculptural project. Carving and inlaying copper on 16 granite and bedrock boulders sourced from around Churchill, Manitoba, Belmore will create hearth-like arrays that appear to radiate heat. Central Art Garage Gallery news.

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Michael Belmore Exhibition: Museum London

This two-person exhibition at the Museum London brings into dialogue the work of the Australian Aboriginal artist Yhonnie Scarce (Kokatha and Nukunu peoples) and the Canadian First Nations artist Michael Belmore (Ojibway).

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Michael Belmore and Camille Turner: Art disputing the arc of Canadian History

Hamilton Spectator review of the AGO’s Every: Now: Then: Reframing Nationhood.

Michael Belmore, an Anishinaabe artist, offers Rumble, a blackened copper sandwich of Trans-Am hoods, with effigies of spiritually significant creatures - a Thunderbird on one side, water panthers on the other - glowing from within.

Nearby looms Bell part of a slickly stylized photo-portrait project by Camal Pirbhai and Camille Turner, which was drawn from a shocking source: 19th-century Canadian classified ads placed by owners in search of their runaway slaves.

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