Aylan Couchie, the recipient of the first annual Barbara Laronde Award, is an Indigenous artist from Nipissing Reserve in North Bay, Ontario.
Having recently completed the Fine Arts Advanced Program at Georgian College she has been accepted to NSCAD University in Halifax where she expects to complete her BFA by 2016. Aylan Couchie, the recipient of the first annual Barbara Laronde Award, is an Indigenous artist from Nipissing Reserve in North Bay, Ontario. Having recently completed the Fine Arts Advanced Program at Georgian College she has been accepted to NSCAD University in Halifax where she expects to complete her BFA by 2016.
“Sense of self and identity are often developed through cultural upbringing and attachment to ancestry,” Couchie says of her artistic practice. “My work has organically evolved into autobiographical interpretations stemming from my relationship with my elders and the effects society has had on their own traditions.” “Sense of self and identity are often developed through cultural upbringing and attachment to ancestry,” Couchie says of her artistic practice. “My work has organically evolved into autobiographical interpretations stemming from my relationship with my elders and the effects society has had on their own traditions.”
Web: aylan-couchie.com
Twitter: @AylanX
