NEVA NOWAZEK

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Neva Nowazek’s art explores themes of Métis culture, disability, gender, sex, and the intersectional qualities of identity. Exploring relationships between nature, identities, and material culture, they reconcile personal struggles. Nowazek creates both two and three-dimensional works using watercolour, acrylic paints, plasticine, fabric, string, and beads. Nowazek’s colour palette combines the beauty of their queerness, childhood wonder, the natural world, and Indigeneity. Nowazek juxtaposes the social and systemic struggles of oppressed minorities and natural processes like death and decay with their lively saturated colours. A common thread in their work is navigating the joy and community that comes from identity alongside the discrimination and difficulty of surviving in a world not built for them.