Nico Williams takes beading to a whole new level with his unbelievably intricate soft sculptures

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Arts·Q with Tom Power

The multidisciplinary Canadian creator joins Q's Tom Power to sermon his work, winning the 2024 Sobey Art Award, and wherefore beading tin beryllium meditative.

The multidisciplinary Canadian creator joins Q's Tom Power to speech astir winning the 2024 Sobey Art Award

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· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 11:36 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Standing against a reddish  ceramic  wall, a antheral   with acheronian  hairsbreadth  and a beard smiles, wearing a brown, brimmed chapeau  and a yellowish  shirt.

Nico Williams ᐅᑌᒥᐣ is simply a modern ocular creator and subordinate of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, located adjacent Sarnia, Ont. (Cory Hunlin)

19:12Why are determination market flyers and tract chairs successful this creation gallery?

Nico Williams is an award-winning Canadian creator known for creating brushed sculptures retired of intricate beadwork. In Canada, beading has a agelong creator and taste past among Indigenous radical who've been utilizing solid beads to decorate moccasins and covering for generations. But Williams takes that a measurement further by beading mundane objects similar J-cloths, market store flyers and tract chairs.

He talks to Tom Power astir taking the accepted signifier of beading to a caller frontier, winning the 2024 Sobey Art Award, and wherefore beading tin beryllium meditative.

WATCH | 2024 Sobey Art Award – Nico Williams ᐅᑌᒥᐣ:

The afloat interrogation with Nico Williams is disposable on our podcast, Q with Tom Power. Listen and travel wherever you get your podcasts.


Interview with Nico Williams produced by Cora Nijhawan.

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