Exhibitions
"The Art of Dimension" Exhibition
July 4th-October 15th, 2023
Featuring Skil Xaaw Jesse Brillon with Haayłingtso Marlo Wylie Brillon.
A vibrant celebration of Haida metalwork practices, and a powerful artistic affirmation of Indigenous knowledge sharing across generations, The Art of Dimension features the copper, gold and silver carving artistry of Haida Gwaii’s, Jesse Brillon, alongside Bill Reid’s own masterful repoussé works.
"Jesse Brillon The Mover of Metal: The Art of Dimension" Exhibition
June 24th-December 24th, 2022
Featuring Skil Xaaw Jesse Brillon with Haayłingtso Marlo Wylie Brillon.
The exhibition was a showcase of Jesse Brillon's repoussé works, and other mediums such as carvings and design work. Many of the pieces were used in Jesse and Marlo's Clan feast that took place a day before the opening
"Indigeneity Rising: Celebrating Our People, Our Stories, and Our Tradition"
September 15, 2021 - November 14, 2021
This micro-exhibit provides an opportunity for the 2020 YVR Art Foundation (YVRAF) scholarship recipients to exhibit their artworks. Each year, since 2005, recipients have exhibited their artworks at a celebratory event held at the Vancouver International Airport. This is the second year that MOV has hosted this collaborative exhibition.
Museum of Vancouver
"c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ | helping each other | ch’áwatway" September 15, 2020 - June 15, 2021
This micro-exhibition provides an opportunity for the 2019 YVR Art Foundation scholarship recipients to exhibit their final works. This exhibition explores themes of resilience, memory and identity, through reconnection with ancestral knowledge and lands. The title, written in both hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh snichim, shows our respect for the teachings of our host communities – the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations while acknowledging that this exhibition is taking place within their shared traditional territories.
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October 10, 2023
"Jesse Brillon's Roaring Metalwork"
Brillon (Haida) breathes life into each piece of metal he crafts, conjuring sacred animals and preserving the legends of his people.
"Work inspired by artist Bill Reid now part of exhibit at the Bill Reid gallery"
July 12th, 2023
“I was really still quite young then, but, you know, his work of course inspired me because he really brought repoussé, the sculpted metal works, back. — Jesse Brillon
North by Northwest with Margaret Gallagher
July 16, 2023
NXNW's Jeremy Ratt visits the Bill Reid Northwest Coast Art Gallery to chat with Haida artists Jesse and Marlo Brillon, the uncle and niece duo behind the gallery's new exhibit "The Art of Dimension."
"The Art of Dimension"
July 17th, 2023
“Bill Reid is credited with introducing the European repoussé technique to the art of the Northwest Coast and inspiring and mentoring Indigenous artists in the craft,” says Beth Carter, Associate Curator with the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art.