Corrine Hunt

Country/Region: Northwest Coast (view other artists)

Tribe: Kwakwaka'wakw

Corrine Hunt (b. 1959) is a member of the Raven Gwa'waina clan from Ts'akis, a Kwakwaka'wakw village on Vancouver Island. Her paternal grandmother, A'neesla’ga, was a Tlingit noblewoman from Alaska. She combines Kwakwaka'wakw and Tlingit influences in her work.

Corrine has lived in the Vancouver area since 1975, graduating from high school in 1977 and continuing her education at Simon Fraser University, majoring in Anthropology and Latin American Studies.

Norman Brotchie, a maternal uncle, attracted her interest with his beautifully hand engraved jewelry and was instrumental in introducing her to the Kwakwaka'wakw art of engraving. Corrine has been working as a jeweller since 1985, and in recent years has worked on large-scale sculpture and custom furniture, blending traditional design with contemporary materials like stainless steel and aluminum. She says of this combination, "I want to show how both the First Nations people and the art have evolved."

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1988 Zuni Gallery, Solo shows in Dusseldorf and Hamburg.

1989 Navajo Gallery, Portland, OR. Solo Show

1990 Navajo Gallery, Portland, OR. Solo Show

1991 Granville Native Art – Group Show

1993 Echoes of Chiefly Feasts: Masterworks by Eleven members of the Hunt Family, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, BC.

2005 Shine: Adornments of the Northwest Coast, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, BC

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