Forged Podcast
1) Episode 1: A Painting
Rock star Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies is doing rock star things — like buying paintings. And what better painting for an iconic Canadian rocker to buy than one by Norval Morrisseau, one of the...Show More
2) Episode 6: Still Painting
Adrian travels to Australia where he finds eerie similarities to Norval Morrisseau’s story. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, an Indigenous artist and Anmatyerre man from the Northern Territory, was a con...Show More
3) Episode 5: Under the Paint
Kevin’s court case kicks off a years-long police investigation. But as officers in Thunder Bay, known by some locals as “Murder Bay” because of its high homicide rates, finally look into the forgeries...Show More
4) Episode 4: The Interveners
Kevin Hearn decides to take the dealer who sold him his painting to court. But this is no ordinary court case. The original dealer dies before the trial. And Kevin, along with his lawyer and witnesses...Show More
5) Episode 3: Norval Fights Back
Norval Morrisseau, who died in 2007, was still alive when forged paintings in his name started appearing. When he saw hundreds of paintings online “signed” by him that he knew he didn’t paint, he star...Show More
6) Episode 2: The Signature
In a brush with death, Norval Morrisseau is given the name “Copper Thunderbird.” He learns to sign it in Cree syllabics, and writes it on his paintings. That artistic signature becomes a clue on the b...Show More
7) Introducing: Forged
Host Adrian Stimson, a painter from the Siksika Nation, tells the unfolding story of legendary Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau and how criminal fraudsters copied his work in a scheme that became ...Show More