He is one of eight recipients of Governor General’s Awards for Visual and Media Arts from the Canada Council for the Arts this year.
“One of the things I was feeling was that all my possibilities and potentialities had exhausted themselves, and I felt I needed to open a door, any door,” the Saskatchewan-born, Chelsea-based author, artist and curator said in an interview, recalling how he decided to expand his artistic practice by furthering his education.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
During an interview in the side gallery containing a display of his meticulously kept notebooks, McMaster said he began writing and drawing in them to document what was going on around him when he started curating. Within a decade, he made a deliberate decision to focus on curation instead of trying to juggle it with his own art practice.
Over the years, McMaster estimates he has worked with hundreds of artists from around the world. A turning point came in 1992, when he co-curated an exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization called Indigena. It took place the same year marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the so-called New World and the 125th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation.
The National Gallery’s senior curator of Indigenous art, Greg Hill, says McMaster’s curatorial work has been about “shifting the narrative” to look at “what’s missing in the grand narrative of the visual history of the lands that we now know as Canada.”
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