{"id":407,"date":"2018-01-30T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:28:54","slug":"david-garneau-coeur-de-la-prairie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/language-institute-la-cite\/david-garneau-coeur-de-la-prairie\/","title":{"rendered":"David Garneau"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Located in CT 217 (Language Institute (La Cit\u00e9<\/span>) 2nd floor)
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\u00a9\u00a0David Garneau. Reproduced with the permission of the artist. Photograph by the University of Regina.<\/p><\/div>\n

Au C\u0153ur <\/span>de la Prairie<\/em>, 2005
Acrylic on canvas
60″ x 48″
University of Regina President\u2019s Art Collection; pc.2006.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

M\u00e9tis artist David Garneau was born in Edmonton in 1962. He lived there (1962\u20131977, 1979\u201380), and Calgary (1977\u20131979, 1980\u20131999), and Regina (1999\u2013present). Growing up with a mother who was also an artist, Garneau has always made art. His first exhibition was at the Bearclaw Gallery in Edmonton in 1980. Garneau\u2019s art is inspired by Alex Janvier (Denesuline and Saulteaux), Joanne Cardinal-Schubert (Kainai), and Bob Boyer (M\u00e9tis), as well as by M\u00e9tis traditional beading and numerous Western art history traditions and techniques.<\/p>\n

Garneau has been a member of the Visual Arts Department since 1999. He is also a curator and writer who received the Governor General\u2019s Award in Visual and Media Art: Outstanding Achievement (2023), was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (2023), and received The Order of Gabriel Dumont Silver Medal (2025). He is a member of the M\u00e9tis Nation of Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

Au C\u0153ur de la <\/em>Prairie (2005) was commissioned by the University of Regina\u2019s Institute fran\u00e7ais to celebrate the \u201cResistance and Convergence: Francophone and M\u00e9tis Strategies of Identity in Western Canada\u201d conference in 2005. The painting recalls the tree located in front of the church at Batoche, a significant historic M\u00e9tis site in Saskatchewan. This was the primary site of the M\u00e9tis Resistance of 1885. Riel was executed 6 months later, at the Northwest Mounted Police barracks in Regina. The heart in the tree represents the interrelationship between the Francophone and M\u00e9tis peoples of the Prairies. The red blood represents Francophones and the blue blood, the M\u00e9tis.<\/p>\n

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David Garneau, An Interesting Meeting on the Prairies (2005)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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David Garneau, Batoche Teepee (2009)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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(b. 1962) Located in CT 217 (Language Institute (La Cit\u00e9) 2nd floor) \u00a0 Au C\u0153ur de la Prairie, 2005Acrylic on canvas60″ x 48″University of Regina President\u2019s Art Collection; pc.2006.5 M\u00e9tis artist David Garneau was born in Edmonton in 1962. He lived there (1962\u20131977, 1979\u201380), and Calgary (1977\u20131979, 1980\u20131999), and Regina (1999\u2013present). Growing up with a mother who was also an artist, Garneau has always made art. His first exhibition was at the Bearclaw Gallery in Edmonton in 1980. Garneau\u2019s art is inspired by Alex Janvier (Denesuline and Saulteaux), Joanne Cardinal-Schubert (Kainai), and Bob Boyer (M\u00e9tis), as well as by M\u00e9tis… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":395,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-indigenous","category-metis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/2389"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}