Stewart Steinhauer

Born in a concentration camp called "Saddle Lake Indian Reserve #125", Steinhauer traces his ancestry to the Newiyaw Nation, Anishnabi Nation, Mohawk Nation, Irish Nation, and Scots Nation. Drawing on a long history of surviving genocidal domination, Steinhauer's work links down into the earth, to the bed rock of Mother Earth's "skin". Kisay Napew Asiniy, the kind, generous, humble, wise old person rock, speaks through Steinhauer's hands and heart.

Although never exposed to art, and having no art training, Steinhauer began carving spontaneously, in 1973, the day after the birth of his first child. For seventeen years carving was a spontaneous cathartic experience, in direct and immediate response to traumatic events in his life. In 1991, Steinhauer's sculptural work, in soapstone, was shown in his first professional exhibition, beginning a second phase that lasted then years, averaging three exhibitions a year for that entire period.

In 2000, Steinhauer began to work on large-scale outdoor work in granite, commissioned by public clients, and continues to pursue work in that arena. He lives and works at his comfy little concentration camp, (Saddle Lake Cree Nation) were he occasionally rattles hi chains, much to the distress of the Canadian Government.

Steinhauer carves in the primitive "method", without sketches or models, working with natural stone, only. His current hobby is studying the relationship between racism, colonialism, and capitalism.