Two-Spirit, Indigenous Artist Caeleigh Lightning Featured at Watson and Lou
/Prints by local artist Caeleigh Lightning are now available at Watson and Lou located in downtown Peterborough.
Photo courtesy of Caeleigh Lightning
Lightning is a 21-year-old, two-spirit, indigenous artist who came to Peterborough to attend Trent University.
“I have mixed ancestry,” said Lightning. “On my moms side we’re am Samson Cree Nation from Maskwacis, Alberta and on my dads side we’re from Dublin, Ireland.”
“I try to communicate a lot of my experiences as a mixed person with those two cultures in my art,” she said.
Lightning hopes that her art shows different identities and bodies, and allows people to accept the beauty in individuality and uniqueness.
Photo courtesy of Caeleigh Lightning
She recently graduated from Trent University’s Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences program and is now heading to Concordia University to complete her Masters of Design.
Art was never considered a realistic career path for her.
“I started incorporating art into a lot of my projects at Trent,” she said. “Anything that I wouldn’t really know how to put into words, I would ask if I could communicate it visually instead.”
She says that by her professors giving her that opportunity she began to consider herself an artist by trade.
Photo courtesy of Caeleigh Lightning
