Christopher Auchter

MID-CAREER ARTIST SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT, 2020

Christopher Auchter is a Haida artist and filmmaker from British Columbia. For his Mid-Career Artist Scholarship, Christopher worked with a master artist in sculpture and created a mouse woman freestanding sculpture in both plasticine clay and copper.

Instagram: @artist_silvershadow

 

Mouse Woman

Clay 10.5 x 3.5 inches

Mouse Woman (detail)

Clay 10.5 x 3.5 inches

Artist Statement

“In Haida culture, Mouse Woman is a matriarch of the supernatural and human beings. She may be small but as Mouse Woman herself may say, “What does size have to do with anything”. Mouse Woman is both wise and wonderful, if you disrespect the natural world or cause a wrong against a supernatural being, you may just find her paying you a visit. She won’t fix the problem for you, but she will help guide you down the path to rectify your wrong.”

– Christopher Auchter

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