Case Study: Niverville Murals

Illustrated murals, Niverville Cultural Centre | A new exhibit space dedicated to telling the story of the local land and the people from pre-settlement to the current day.

This project was my first time working with?HTFC?Planning & Design, a landscape architecture, community and resource planning, urban design, and interpretive design firm unique in balancing the nuanced relationship between people and the land. Their work extends across the prairies, boreal forest, arctic regions, and beyond. In the form of two murals, the team invited me to interpret the intertwined history of European settlers, Métis, and the Indigenous People (Anishinaabeg, Dakota, & Ininíwak) of an area near the confluence of the Red and Rat Rivers and present-day Niverville.

The commission was to create two murals—one of the pre-settlement landscape and the other post-settlement. With the team, a considerable amount of research, care, and consultation was undertaken to envision the environment for these two murals.

Completed Summer 2021. More info: www.scottplumbe.com