Cheryl l'Hirondelle

Cheryl k. l'Hirondelle
Born September 20
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Known for Artist, Writer
Website www.cheryllhirondelle.com

Cheryl l'Hirondelle is a critically acclaimed multi/interdisciplinary visual artist, performer and musician in digital and live formats. She is of Métis/Cree-non status/treaty, French, German, and Polish decent. She graduated from Alberta College of Art and University of Calgary in 1981, and Royal Conservatory of Music in 1990.

Life

Since the early 1980s, Cheryl has performed nationally and internationally in various venues and forms, from punk to art rock, blues to folk-roots, physical endurance duration performances, sit-specific installations, interactive projects, and world music to choral ensembles. She has performed in artist-run galleries, media labs, educational institutions, women's prison systems and First Nations bands and tribal councils. She has performed for notable people such as Prince Charles, Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean.

Cheryl was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and currently resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Artwork

Cheryl's practice is cross disciplinary, with a performative focus. Her work has been described to blur the boundaries between art and activism, between memory and forgetting, mind and body, artist and broader community.[1] The performance work Dearth (by means of the senses), was a collaboration with Mark Dicey at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre in Alberta in 1992. It worked to disconcert personal rituals and myths, as they perform using staging codes observed by young children who are playing at being adults (playing house) to enact family roles and tensions.[2] With the support of a Toronto Arts Council grant, l'Hirondelle composed four round dance songs from an urban Aboriginal perspective. This led to her consultancy and eventual co-storyteller in residence role, along with other projects with the Meadow Lake Tribal Council programming.[3] She was a participating artist in the critically acclaimed exhibition Beat Nation, curated by Kathleen Ritter, inspired by a show which originated at grunt gallery by Tania Willard, expanded at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2012 and traveled across Canada.[4]

Music

l'Hirondelle is part of the group M'Girl with Renae Morriseau and Sheila Maracle. Their first album, Fusion of Two Worlds, won the 2006 Canadian Aboriginal Music Award (CAMA) for Best Female Traditional Roots Album of the Year Award[5] In 2007, they won the Best Group Award,[6] and recently, she took the Best Folk/Acoustic Album for Wrapped in Daisies.[7] She occasionally performs with Nikamok (with Joseph Naytowhow) and has worked on a solo project with Toronto-based singer/songwriter and producer Gregory Hoskins.

References

  1. ↑ Nanibush, Wanda (December 2008). "Pirates of Performance". Fuse Magazine. 32 (1 p.24).
  2. ↑ Gilbert, Sylvie (1992). noise under the tongue. Banff, Alberta Canada: Walter Phillips Gallery. p. 20. ISBN 0-920159-41-9.
  3. ↑ Wood, Morgan (2003). Wild Fire on the Plains: Contemporary Saskatchewan Art. Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery. pp. 36–37. ISBN 1-896359-42-6.
  4. ↑ "BEAT NATION: ART, HIP HOP and Aboriginal Culture" (PDF). Vancouver Art Gallery. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ Ed (November 26, 2006). "List of winners: 2006 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards". sootoday.com.
  6. ↑ Heather, Kellly (November 30, 2007). "Winners of the 2007 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards (CAMAs)" (PDF). Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Drezus big winner at Indigenous Music Awards in Winnipeg". CBC. September 11, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
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