In Diary of a Nomad, Jude Norris explored the effect of post-modern technologies and attitudes on nomadic cultural approaches to sustenance, lifestyle and survival. Using three projection screens hung like the sides of an open square, Norris constructed a softer inner room from which to consider the gallery as a culturally influenced 'chamber of experience'. Within this portable space, the artist projected often-dispirited panoramas contrasting urban/rural and Indigenous/immigrant migratory cycles. These digital landscapes were both a celebration of the land and a critique of Western landscape traditions.
Jude Norris is a Plains Cree/Anishnawbe/Metis Nation multi-disciplinary First Nations artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has lived for extended periods in the UK , Vancouver, Toronto, and the Lower Similkameen Reservation in Interior Salish territory in Central B.C.
Norris creates work from the vantage point of an Indigenous woman living in post-modern Western society. She expands these personal experiences into work that embodies Indigenous expression and vision, yet is broadly accessible and relevant.
Norris is a recipient of the prestigious Chalmer’s Arts Fellowship, and has received awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, and can be found in the collections of major museums across Turtle Island.
To learn more about Norris’ and her work, visit her website.