Author of the article: Frances Learment
Publishing date: Jun 29, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 3 minute read • The Southampton Indigenous artist who created ‘Product of Canada’, Brent Henry has been commissioned by the Town to create art that will stand as a continual reminder for councils, staff and the community at large of the pain, suffering and loss of life inflicted by Colonialism and by he residential school system on Indigenous peoples of Canada..[Southampton Arts]
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A pile of bison skulls superimposed with the word “famine.” An Indigenous girl’s decaying face covered with a silencing red handprint.
Those in-your-face paintings by Southampton Indigenous artist Brent Henry compelled Town of Saugeen Shores councillors to commission him to create a work that would act as a reminder of the loss of life inflicted by the Residential School system on Canada’s Indigenous people.
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