Joanna McEwen
Justice for Tina will come from all of us
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TINA Egg tempera on gessoed Baltic birch 6” x 4”
Biography
Joanna McEwen was born in Parry Sound, ON. Both before and after completing an MFA at Norwich University in Vermont, USA in 1999, McEwen has been creating, teaching and exhibiting across Ontario.
“A considerable portion of my work is a record of select historical phenomena marking place, particularly the domestic mappings of place made by rural folk. I am particularly moved to record the banal of the daily; tasks completed by the hand, most often conditioned mechanical acts made by women as markers of place. A maker by trade, I am totally immersed in my materials and their particular physical properties. My most recent projects include the interiors of small rural Ontario churches; a series investigating aged and aging women and select images from Georgian Bay- where the earth bares her spine.”
Statement
In the spring of her life, this teenager was most likely murdered, her body (wrapped in a blanket) found in a river. The death of this child helped to make clear the need for a completed national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. Anishinaabe elder David Courchene Jr. commented - “Justice for Tina will come from all of us” Globe & Mail, 2017.