Words cannot describe.


​I am Metis, existing in the in-between.  I am the twilight that separates night and day.  I am the middle ground between two nations.  We are  not "Half " of  anything but are doubled, and likewise proud. 

​hangman's noose​


​gordeesidewalk urban gatherer​

​Louis Riel

Welcome to the studio of Gordon McCaveney

Louis Riel

In a moment of being poetic I discovered this.........................

​​My opening piece is a three-part installation consisting of a portrait , a revelation and a flag.

My Nation's Flag

​I am Metis , a member of the Metis Nation of Ontario. descendant of the "Northwest Rebellion".

36in. by 36in.

Indigenous carver / artisan

I look at the hangman's noose that took my nations leader in my peculiar way.......                    "Now I color this noose with the pure white of clouds, and the bluest  blue, of the biggest sky in the world. I reflect on one of the darker moments in our country's history ,   and,   then I took a mirror and reflected again finding this   ........................................................

​"My People will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back"

All pictures expand

​graphite on wood, gathered rope-

Photography by gordeesidewalk 

This first showing of my artwork,is also a retrospective, spanning thirty years.   

Metis  Carver/artisan