Haley Bassett
Bio
(b. 1991, Dawson Creek, BC; Métis)
Haley Bassett is an interdisciplinary artist of Métis and settler descent from Dawson Creek, BC. She was born in 1991 to cattle-rancher parents and now lives and works in Sunset Prairie, BC, in the traditional territory of the Dene, Dane-zaa, and Cree encompassed by Treaty 8 and the Métis Homeland.
She studied painting and drawing at the Florence Academy of Art and has been mentored by Peter von Tiesenhausen, Brendan Tang, and Genevieve Robertson. In 2020, she completed her BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University, minoring in Social Practice and Community Engagement. During her studies, she was awarded the BCAC Scholarship twice. She also received the Opus Art Supplies Award, an Honorable Mention for the Art Attack Award, and the BCAC Early Career Development Grant in 2020. She recently completed a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts Creativity and will start her MFA at Emily Carr through their low-residency program in the fall of 2023.
Bassett started as a painter; however, her practice now includes sculpture, installation, beadwork, found objects, and textiles. Her visual work explores how time, place, family histories, and personal traumas converge as formational aspects of the self. Much of Bassett’s work celebrates the culture and landscape of the Peace Region, and she hopes to make a positive impact on northern communities by representing them authentically in her work.
Exhibitions
Available Work
Hunter
2023,
Ghillie suit, seed beads, trail tape, hunting boots, gloves, balaclava, rifle sling, mannequin, spruce boughs, willow, old man’s beard, deactivated shotgun, Rustoleum paint, dyed rabbit hide, deer hide,
72” x 36” x 24”
Self Portrait as Patience and Persistence
2019,
Dried grass, wire, thread,
60” x 30” x 22”
Necessary Tension
2023,
Commercially tanned deer hide, found faux leather, stroud cloth, thread, Czech seed beads, antique Russian beads, imitation and natural sinew, poplar, cotton fabric,
Dimensions Variable
Fire Bag
2023,
Wool stroud, Czech seed beads, antique beads, cotton twill, thread, sinew, yarn, cotton fabric,
22” 13” x 2”
Wild Rose
2023,
Wool stroud, Czech seed beads, antique steel cut beads, cotton twill, thread, sinew, yarn, cotton fabric, wild rose hips,
Wool stroud, Czech seed beads, antique steel cut beads, cotton twill, thread, sinew, yarn, cotton fabric, wild rose hips
Prairie Fire
2023,
Wool stroud, Czech seed beads, antique steel cut beads, cotton twill, thread, sinew, yarn, cotton fabric,
17” x 14” x 1.5”
Indian Paintbrush
2023,
Wool stroud, Czech seed beads, antique steel cut beads, cotton twill, thread, sinew, yarn, cotton fabric,
17” x 14” x 1.5”
Sage and Wolf Willow
2023,
Wool stroud, Czech seed beads, antique steel cut beads, cotton twill, thread, sinew, yarn, cotton fabric, silverberry beads,
17” x 14” x 1.5”
Middle Sister
2023,
Poplar, Oil,
9.5” x 10” x 3.5”