Roxanne Charles
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Roxanne Charles is a mixed media artist from Semiahmoo First Nation. She is an active and proud member of her community where she promotes arts, language, and culture. She explores a variety of mediums including digital, jewelry, engraving, painting, weaving, sculpture, ceramics, and installation based works. Roxanne received a BFA as well as a BA in General Studies with Minors in Art History and Cultural Anthropology from Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 2016, and a Master of Fine Arts at Simon Fraser University. Her work explores a variety of themes that reflect her lived experience as an Indigenous woman on Turtle Island. Some of the themes commonly explored in her work are culture, nature, spirituality, environment, identity, hybridity, urbanization, exploitation, intergenerational trauma, and various forms of violence (such as lateral, systemic, and domestic). Roxanne is a contemporary storyteller and historian who would like to touch, move, and inspire others through her work. Her work activates visual representation, oral history, and ceremony; methods which have been utilized by the Semiahma People for thousands of years. She is responding to and documenting a troubling colonial present.Bill Reid Gallery Education, 2024