and the Belly. She used to play in the Oldman as a child with her siblings and in 2004 she began documenting the rivers with photographs, which she proceeded to create black and white photocopies of, titling it old man is a river. Through digital images, writing and drawing, my time spent with rivers – their influence on our bodies and our histories – has been recorded and re-played. And through travels, this engagement with the idea of place and its texture has come to be site-specific. The piece, shaped like a diamond, consists of one half encaustic images of Prairie grass and one half a large digital print collage featuring inscriptions of her thoughts. This work was displayed in 2005 at the Alberta Biennial. In 2004 she created camouflage, an installation and performance-like piece that involved HeavyShield placing stones and twigs from the Oldman River, which feature photocopied images of the river and text from the Blackfoot dictionary on them, on the shore of the St. Croix River. Releasing them to the elements, three weeks later most of the pieces had scattered or been carried away by the tide. This piece was created on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Samuel de Champlain at the site – representing "themes of transplantation and exchange." Exhibitions Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists (2019), Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Art of Faye Heavyshield (2022), 40-year retrospective, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina. Notable collections Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Heard Museum National Gallery of Canada Notable awards Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, 2009, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Further reading HeavyShield, Faye. venus as torpedo. Dunlop Art Gallery Publications, 1996. Maclear, Kyo and Kathryn Walter. Private Investigators: Undercover in Public Space. Banff Centre Press, 1999. Smith, Paul Chaat. Faye HeavyShield: Blood. Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2005. References External links Robert Houle on Faye HeavyShield "Faye HeavyShield: Strength of the Kainai" Mason Studio "Faye HeavyShield's Calling Stones" Galleries West First Nations installation artists Women installation artists First Nations feminists First Nations sculptors First Nations conceptual artists Kainai Nation people Contemporary sculptors University of Calgary alumni Feminist artists Artists from Alberta 1953 births Living people Canadian feminists First Nations women artists