Margarete Bagshaw

Quotes

• “I’m in a position where I don’t have to be labeled… I don’t have to call myself an Indian artist to sell my work, and I decided that it was more to my advantage not to label myself as a particular kind of artist, based solely on my genealogy… now I know that I can be part of something, part of that lineage, without being defined by it.”
• “I liked the way they looked. They were easy to work with my hands. The drawings turned into these magical things.”
• “I don’t like to feel like I have to stay within a certain style. I like to see things progress and turn into other things. I’m all about adventure.”
• “I had this internal need to be a healer. My mom was ill a lot when I was a kid. When she got cancer, I became interested in the progression of the disease and how she was being treated,”
• ““I want my children to be happy. I want them to find their own purpose in life rather than fall into a life that’s already set up for them”
• “My grandmother, my mother, and me, each one of us progressed into our own work, “I take a great deal of pride in being different from my family. Yet I know my mother would absolutely love my work. As a woman, I think she’d be very proud that I’ve chosen to do things in my own style.””

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