Rolande Souliere
Language Group: Anishinaabe
Website: www.rolandesouliere.com.au
Instagram: @Rolande.Souliere
Multi-media artist, Rolande Souliere is best known for her large-scale site specific immersive installations created from caution and street barrier tape to address how colonial infrastructures define, mark and control space and the inhabitants within them.
For a decade, Souliere has been working with material and metaphors of the road to address how systems, namely political and cultural systems inform, construct and impact personal and collective histories in contemporary society.
Utilising repetitive strategies of wrapping, binding and layering, Souliere’s artworks incorporate reflective road signage, automobile headlights and brake lights, GPS systems, construction clothing and delineators. These universal materials are stripped from their usual contexts, manipulated and repurposed into dynamic installations that discuss narratives that shape our understanding of infrastructural intervention, economic expansion and growth with the oncoming of colonial settlement.
Souliere is a member of Michipicoten First Nation, born in Toronto, Canada and is an Australian citizen with a PhD from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Souliere became a visual artist after relocating to Sydney in the late 1990s. She has exhibited in North America, Austria and Australia and has held national and international art residencies. Souliere’s public art commissions include Mediating the Treaties (2017-2018) commissioned by The City of Winnipeg, Frequent Stopping V,IV,III (2019-2018) for Translink BC and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver and Bringing Back Wabakinine (2015) commissioned by City of Toronto.