Jackson Beardy A Canadian Artist and Prominent Member of The Indian Group of Seven
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Jackson Beardy (Garden Hill First Nation Reserve, Island Lake, Manitoba, Canada, July 24, 1944 – December 7, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba) was a Canadian artist. He was an Anishinini-Indian and his works are characterized by scenes from the holy stories of his people. He belonged to the Woodland School of Art and was a prominent member of the Indian Group of Seven.

In 1972 Jackson Beardy, Alex Janvier and Daphne Odjig held a joint exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. It was called “Treaty Numbers 23, 287, 1171” a reference to the treaty numbers that the Canadian government gave to the indigenous groups which they had concluded treaties. From this exhibition grew a group of indigenous (Native) Canadian artists who named their selves the “Professional Native Indian Artists Association” in 1973. This is better known as the Indian Group of Seven, including alongside Jackson Beardy also Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Carl Ray, Eddy Cobiness en Joseph Sanchez. This group combined forces to promote their work into the world of western art. They were committed to indigenous control of indigenous art and to change the way the world looked to this art. A shift from an emphasis on “indigenous” to “Artistic” value.

Although Beardy’s early work often narrates specific legends, his mature art expresses fundamental cosmological and spiritual concepts such as balance in nature, regeneration and growth, and the interdependence of all things. His distinctive graphic style is characterized by precisely defined flat areas of warm colour and curving ribbons of paint.

Jackson Beardy died on December 7, 1984 in Winnipeg, Manitoba to complications after a heart attack.