Mackenzie Anderson Linklater is a Nihithow and Anishinaabe artist from Pinaymootang First Nation and currently based in Treaty 1 Territory. Through the mediums of beading, printmaking, and installation her work is focused on themes of intergenerational memory, language, and materiality. Andersons work is rooted in Indigenous research methodologies with a focus on intergenerational storytelling. She explores birch bark biting/etching as documentation and incorporates new modes of translation by utilizing contemporary materials and technologies. The intentional choice of her materials including birch, tarp, rabbit fur and family photographs are essential to her work as they act as a connection to my family. My current project centers on oral history and collecting familial narratives while transforming and recontextualizing the birch bark biting/etching practice as a form of translation between past and present.
Mackenzie Anderson (she/her)
b. Manitoba; Canada, 2000
University of Manitoba, School of Art
BFA with Honours, 2024
Committee member for the Indigenous Student Led Indigenous Art Purchase Program
Ran a printmaking demostration on the University of Manitoba
Designed tote bags for University of Manitoba BISOCC Fundraiser
2023 - No Place Like University of Manitoba - Gallery of Student Art
2018 - Wahkohtowin, University of Manitoba - Gallery of Student Art
2018 - Analogous University of Manitoba - Gallery of Student Art
2018 - Edge Gallery - SOFASA Exhibition
2020 - Munoz Gomez, M. Review of Wahkohtowin: capturing relations at the tache student gallery, winnipeg.
2018 - Reviere Edition 1
2020 - Community Builder Award, Indigenous Student Awards of Excellence
2017 - Indigenous Arts and Stories Junior Winner, Historica Canada