Tania Willard

Tania Willard completed an honours degree at the University of Victoria in 1998 and subsequently has gone on to work in the arts as an artist, educator, and curator. A former editor of Redwire, a magazine for Native youth, Willard’s practice often explores the intersections of Aboriginal history, mythology and representation.

Dreaming Terra Incognita is a series of prints and an artist book that contrasts the myths, traditions and stories of supernatural beings, cryptozoology with the cultural frameworks of early colonial travelers. Willard completed the series at The Banff Centre during a residency in 2008. This silkscreen superimposes the outline of North and South America onto an early map of The Americas, as they were known to early explorations as unknown lands or Terra Incognita.