20 Halie Finney

Title: Loonette the Ghost and Her Shadow

Dimensions: 10in x 10in

Year of Completion: 2018

Medium: Acrylic Ink on Transparencies (2 Layered Transparencies)

Estimated Value: $350

Courtesy of the Artist

Loonette has been dead for along time, she is the ghost of an animal but she has been dead for so long that she can't remember what animal she used to be. She is silent and underestimated but is strong and resilient, a powerful being. These two transparencies were made in the summer of 2018 during my residency at the John and Maggie Mitchell gallery at MacEwan University and originally intended to be shown on an overhead projector but have found a new home in a shadow box.

Halie Finney is an emerging artist who is Metis and is based in Edmonton, Alberta. She received her degree from the Alberta University of Art and Design in 2017 where she majored in drawing, she also graduated from MacEwan University in 2014 with a diploma in fine arts.

Born and raised in the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta, Halie holds a strong connection to the area. She understands her Metis heritage through memories told to her by generations of her family who still reside there and through the characteristics of her home's landscape and lifestyle. Halie has created a mythology of characters that play out non-linear, idiosyncratic narratives that are expressed through animations, costumes, drawings, paintings, performances and other objects.