Lauren Brevner & James Harry, Sínulhḵay, 2025

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LAUREN BREVNER & JAMES HARRY
Sínulhḵay, 2025
Art Edition

AVAILABILITY: limited stock

PRICE:
$950 CAD (unframed)
$1,350 CAD (framed)

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PRINT DETAILS:

Edition: 50
Paper size: 30" x 15"
Image size: 24.5" x 9"
Technique: hand-printed embossed woodblock relief, serigraph, suspended copper pigment
Date: 2025
Signature: signed and numbered

Studio Lauren James is the collaborative duo of James Nexw’Kalus-Xwalacktun Harry and Lauren Brevner. James, of the Skwxwú7mesh Nation, creates work rooted in Coast Salish design and contemporary cultural resurgence. Lauren’s practice explores matriarchal influence and her Japanese-Trinidadian heritage through mixed media and public art.

Responding to the new monumental installation in Vancouver, BC, Sínulhḵay, the newest edition in this grouping, marks a bold and contemporary addition by Lauren Brevner and James Harry. Rooted in an ancestral Skwxwúmesh story, the work tells of a two-headed serpent—one head representing greed and personal gain, the other symbolizing generosity and the restoration of balance. In the story, a serpent is destroying the land and animal habitats, and so the young warrior Xwechtáal must choose: slay the “bad” head and bring the animals back, or slay the “good” head and take all the power for himself. With stark clarity and graphic immediacy, Harry and Brevner render this moral parable as a meditation on leadership, responsibility, and the stakes of personal and cultural decision-making. The serpent becomes a symbol of the same tensions explored in the other works: psychological complexity, the natural world as alive and watchful, and the lasting impacts of colonial disruption. With bold graphic energy, Sínulhḵay stands as a vital, living thread in this intergenerational conversation.

Lauren Brevner & James Harry’s Sínulhḵay, Jack Shadbolt’s Toward a White Garden, and Ann Kipling’s Dog in the Sky—have been brought together to explore the landscape’s complex psyche, the potency of animal symbolism, and the legacies of colonial encounter that still pulse through the Pacific Northwest today.

Together, these editions invite you to contemplate the land’s living memory—its beauty, its wounds, its stories—and how through art we can confront, honor, and reimagine the relationship to the world around us.

Proceeds from the sale of this print directly fund the acquisition of Super Natural Eye II created by Studio Lauren James. Featured in the Gordon Smith Gallery’s 2025-26 exhibition From The Ground, this work will be permanently installed at the new elementary school in North Vancouver’s Cloverley neighbourhood in 2026.

 

 

Printed by Val Loewen at Malaspina Printmakers

Photo by Rachel Topham Photography

 

ADDITIONAL LINKS

Artist: Studio Lauren James
Artist: James Harry
Artist: Lauren Brevner
Instagram: Lauren Brevner
Instagram: James Harry