Preview: Aboriginal artist Cyril Sacobie

Creativity just comes automatically. I don’t know where it comes from but it’s there. I guess it’s in my blood. -CS

Cyril Sacobie is an aboriginal artist from Kingsclear First Nation in New Brunswick, where he works in wood carving, basketry and just about anything he can get his hands on. When I last spoke to him he was making a miniature birch bark canoe for the local school, having been voluntold for the task by his son. “My dad can make that!”

I visited his studio on a cold spring day with Matt Brown as part of the Studio Tour series (preview below), and came away inspired by this guy. He made us laugh, and made me think about creativity in a new way. Cyril is an artist who considers himself the vessel through which creativity works to help the art emerge from the medium. His work evokes his aboriginal heritage through its imagery and material. The same creative spirit that pulsed through his ancestors is what energizes him every morning to make these new artifacts that tell the stories of an ancient people in a modern age.

Read the full interview with Cyril in the upcoming third issue of CreatedHere magazine - coming soon!

(Photos by Marie-Hélène Morell)

Here is a little preview of the Studio Tour episode featuring aboriginal artists Samaqani Cocahq and Cyril Sacobie.

https://vimeo.com/129350734