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Stewart Steinhauer
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Stewart Steinhauer
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Stewart Steinhauer was born a Treaty Indian, but Stewart is of mixed racial heritage, and claims membership in the non-native community as well. He 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.
Stewart Steinhauer used carving as a healing process from 1973 to 1993, and as 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.
Stewart Steinhauer, living at Saddle Lake in the early 1990's, began to understand how his 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 the community have 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.
ARTIST STATEMENT
"My interpretation of this story 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 "International Native Arts Festival", Bankers' Hall, Calgary, AB
1995 Gallery Indigena, Stratford, ON
1995 West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1994 Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
1994 West End Gallery, Victoria, BC
1994 West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1993 Permanent Installation "Eagle Child", Kihew Asiniy Education Centre, Saddle Lake, AB
1993 Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
1993 Heritage Gallery, Westbank, BC
1991 "Premier Exhibit", West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB
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