Auction 2025
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Atheana Picha (Kwantlen)
“Portal” I read somewhere “The veil thins at the loom” and thought about how special my loom is to me when it is warped up. It feels like a place between worlds where I can connect with weavers from thousands of years before me as I twist fibres together and weave them into something reborn,…
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Steve Smith (Wuikinuxv/Kwakwaka’wakw)
“Shifter of Shapes” Sometimes a transformation can be so profoundly complete it becomes unrecognizable. Is the box the Raven or did the Raven turn into the box? Both are and always have been one. Back to Bentwood Box Auction 2025
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Phil Gray (Ts’msyen/Cree)
“awta: buyer beware” This is a visual representation of my current emotional availability. Back to Bentwood Box Auction 2025
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KC Hall (Heiltsuk) and Copper Canoe Woman (Nuu-chah-nulth/Heiltsuk)
“The Echo Box” This piece is my vision of a vessel; a place where the real songs of our people and the deep stories of the past are held. That formline figure isn’t just sitting there. It’s alive. Its mouth is open, releasing that ancestral energy, that echo. The abalone inlay – that’s the spirit,…
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Jade Hanuse (Nuxalk/Wuikinuxv/Kwakwaka’wakw)
“Between Worlds” This bentwood box carries the breath of ancestral memory. It is a vessel for story, spirit, and song. The Raven embodies ancient knowledge and reminds us that wisdom moves through both seen and unseen realms. Carved upside down, Raven speaks from the spirit side, representing our ancestors who continue to guide us beyond…
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Corrine Hunt (Kwakwaka’wakw/Tlingit)
“It’s the Crack Where the Light Goes” The crack. Where the light gets in. Colouring outside the lines. The artist as an adultchild roams outside the boundaries of formline sparking interest in an adventure that unfolds through play. For the youth. We play. Back to Bentwood Box Auction 2025
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Clint Work (Kwakwaka’wakw)
“Wealth” This box-rattle embodies forms of wealth that are dear to me: wild places that feed me and my soul, family, music, and concepts that help guide my walk in life. Back to Bentwood Box Auction 2025
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Adam Lewis (Kwakwaka’wakw/Ligwilda’xw)
House of 8 Arms “House of 8 Arms” honors the deep connection between land and sea. The artwork on this cedar bentwood box draws inspiration from the hidden world beneath our coastal northwest waters, what one might glimpse when peering into the den of an octopus. A creature of intelligence, adaptability, and mystery, the octopus…