Jude & Spider in Holy Dog (video still) video available @ www.vtape.org
Jude Norris is a Plains Cree/Anishnawbe/Metis Nation
multi-disciplinary First Nations artist.
Jude is known as Bebonke Brown or Pipon ᐱᐳᐣ (Pih-poun),
Her home territory is in and around Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), Alberta,
and she is a decendant of the Papaschase First Nation, which was
disbanded as part of the colonial development of the city of Edmonton.
She has been based in Brooklyn, New York, for 18 years,
and has also lived for extended periods in Vancouver, Toronto, Brighton and London (UK),
Poundmaker Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, and the Lower Similkameen Indian Band in Syilx territory in Central B.C.
Creating her artwork from the wahkohtowin perspective of connection and interrelation, Jude takes an empathic and prayerful approach her use of a variety of 2 and 3D media. She employs, combines and juxtaposes the unique qualities of First Nations and Western creative practices, media, and technologies to continue Indigenous embrace of oral and visual storytelling, often doing this abstractly. Her work draws from a foundation of ancient Indigenous perspective and paradigm, while pushing the boundaries of Contemporary Western new-media practices.
Visit Bebonkwe Brown, her alias site, for a more in depth bio and artist statement.
The artist with gathering 7050 (into space) & gathering 4494 (minowin/recovery),
Brooklyn Public Library, 2024.
Lower Similkameen Indian Band territory, 2011.