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Stewart Steinhauer
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Stewart Steinhauer was born February 16, 1952, at Saddle Lake Indian Reserve, in North-eastern Alberta. Although he was born a Treaty Indian, Stewart is of mixed racial heritage, and claims membership in the non-native community as
well.
Stewart is self-taught as a carver, beginning as a spontaneous response to the birth of his first child in 1973. In 1990, he decided to sell his small business and become a full-time artist. He currently lives and works in both Alberta
and British Columbia.
From 1973 to 1993, carving was a healing process for Stewart, a means of expressing concepts and feelings in response to traumatic experiences, which he was incapable of expressing through other ways of communication.
Stewart drew on his self-taught carpentry experience in cabinetwork and house design to inform his sculpting work.
In the early 1990's, living at Saddle Lake, Stewart began to understand how culture is expressed through spiritual ceremonies.
This became a turning point between using carving as a personal healing process and carving as a means of expressing the cultural values to a wider audience, which forms the basis of his professional career.
Elders in his community requested
that Stewart use carving as a healing catalyst for the community and the people, transmitting important information from the ceremonies and teaching stories to a broader audience.
During the course of his "training", one story he calls ‘Eagle
Child’ has impacted his life. Simultaneously simple and profound, the story provides ageless guidance as humans struggle for a meaningful existence - an existence beyond the level of survival.
"My interpretation of the stories and the images I
create based on that interpretation, form a ‘home fire’ for my current work - a central point from which to come and go, and a comforting place from which to view and assess the chaotic break and form of life. I am a dreamer: dreaming between two worlds,
dreaming contentment, dreaming terror, dreaming great loss and sadness, dreaming great achievement and ecstasy. I am a storyteller, telling the stories of my dreams in stone, chronicling my life as an individual, as a family man, as a community member,
as a world citizen. Our elders warned us that when we lose our dreams we lose our way; welcome chaos for it is the fertile seed - bed of the dream world."
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Stewart Steinhauer
Exhibitions
2001 "Year of the Great Bear", Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
2000 Commissioned by the Town of Banff to create 3 cairns in different sites in Banff: Bear, Eagle/Thunderbird and Buffalo
1998 Solo Show, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
1996 Show with Alex Janvier, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
1995 West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1995 Gallery Indigena, Stratford, ON
1995 "International Native Arts Festival", Bankers' Hall, Calgary, AB
1994 West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1994 West End Gallery, Victoria, BC
1994 Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
1993 Heritage Gallery, Westbank, BC
1993 Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
1993 Permanent Installation "Eagle Child", Kihew Asiniy Education Centre, Saddle Lake, AB
1991 "Premier Exhibit", West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB
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