Darlene Allison was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is a member of the Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation, located on the western shores of Lake Manitoba. When she was a child her family moved to the West Coast. Raised in British Columbia, her passion for sculpture developed at a very young age after winning a bronze award for sculpture during an art competition in Seattle, U.S.A. Darlene is a self- taught artist, who has had no formal tr...