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sculpture

Gordon Twance

Gordon Twance is a wood carver and jewelry designer from the Kwakwaka’wakw territory in and around Fort Rupert, near the north end of Vancouver Island. In the mid-1990s, Twance lived and worked at Port Hardy, where he created and sold silver jewelry and cedar carvings. Several signed but undated carved cedar plaques indicate that he may also have spent some time in Surrey, British Columbia. His work features animals found in the Pacific Northwest.