Bead Work
December 4, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Robert Kardosh Gallery is pleased to announce Bead Work, an exhibition spotlighting the practices of artists whose expressions incorporate beads and beadwork within a diverse range of media and idioms. Featuring images by seven Indigenous artists, the exhibition considers how beads and beading are employed to explore important messages about history, the impacts of colonialism, Indigenous values of resilience and community, beauty and intergenerational connection.
The exhibition, our final presentation of 2025, features works by Barry Ace, Ruth Cuthand, Lindsay McIntyre, Elizabeth Nutaaraaluk, Avis Simeon, Eva Talooki Aliktiluk and Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson.
Barry Ace
17. Mnemonic Code, 2020 Direct digital print, glass beads, thread, porcupine quills, microchips on Somerset paper, framed 29.5 x 22.5 in. $10,000
Barry Ace
Flux, 2017, Beads, porcupine quills, water flow chart, circuit, board schematic on paper, 41 3/8 x 29.5 in. (paper) SOLD
Barry Ace
Manidoominens Landscape, 2014 Photo transfer on paper, acrylic paint, beads, matte medium, porcupine quills, feather, cotton thread, 29 7/8 x 22 in. (paper) SOLD
Ruth Cuthand
Extirpate this Execrable Race no. 9, 2018, Glass beads, Canadian Forces Blankets, ribbon Dimensions variable, SOLD
Ruth Cuthand
Surviving: Monkeypox IV, 2022, Glass beads, thread, backing, 25.25 x 19.25 in., $15,000
Elizabeth Nutaraluk Aulatjut
Untitled (couples and tent) Ca.1988, wool duffle, felt, embroidery floss, beads, and cotton thread, 40 x 17 in. $6000
Avis Simeon
Edmonton Oilers Medallion,2025, Wearable sculpture, Beads, backing 3.75 x 3.75 in. (excluding cord) $350
