Pierre-Francois Ouellette

Commanda is a multidisciplinary artist from the Algonquin nation at Kitigan Zibi. In the past ten years he has developed an oeuvre of film, poetry, music, sound composition and beadwork. He began beading in 2019 in response to artist Nalakwsis’s social media challenge, Bead This in Your Style (2019-2021) and credits Nico Williams as an influential teacher who taught him flat Peyote triangles. From there Craig branched out to the geometric bead world developing an appreciation for the Cellini architectural beading style. He has since incorporated these geometrical-architectural methods into his work and is making a style of his own.