These are the final drawings of Napachie Pootoogook (1938 – 2002). They are part of a larger body of work that was first exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) in the spring of 2004, and the following year at the National Gallery of Canada. This exhibition, True North, marks the 10th anniversary of the Winnipeg opening. It is a … Read More
Jutai Toonoo: Still Life
“I was thinking of still life painting. I looked at the objects in my house and in the studio and outside and used them as inspiration. Some were taken from my sketchbooks. When I would find the subject outside, I would borrow a camera, take a picture and work from that. Some I arranged to create the composition and others … Read More
Daniel Shimout: In the Old Days
Born in Coral Harbour in 1972, Daniel Shimout has been carving since his teenage years, following in the footsteps of his artist father and brothers. Shimout strives to take risks and create variety in his art. This is accomplished by incorporating multiple forms of media into his works, including whalebone, ivory, antler, and stone, some of which he has found … Read More
Tim Pitsiulak “Looking Back, Looking Forward” Opening Reception
Feheley Fine Arts opened the exhibition Tim Pitsiulak: Looking Back, Looking Forward in Fall 2013 which featured extraordinary large-scale drawings by Pitsiulak. The body of work provided an original perspective on Inuit stories while also representing the northern wildlife and environment. Sarah Milroy joined Pitsiulak at the opening reception where the two discussed Pitsiulak’s life as a hunter-artist and later … Read More
Marcel Dzama: Waiting for the Man
The Great Watcher I was weaving a tapestry containing the maze of this city and the palace, and I sent a swift-footed ragazzo to lose himself in it, until he found you. I understood that the tapestry would bring me another lover. It doesn’t matter, that is how it always happens: truth begins or ends by evaporating. I will await … Read More
Tim Pitsiulak: Looking Back – Looking Forward
A new exhibition of work by Cape Dorset artist Tim Pitsiulak is an occasion for learning: learning more about life in Canada’s high arctic, and learning more about the developing talent of one of the north’s finest artists. His pictures of life in the arctic record the environment and the way of life he loves, bringing us close to the … Read More
The Hand of the Artist
The history of drawing in Cape Dorset is a long one, reaching back to the late 1950’s when the fledgling artist co-operative was experimenting with the creation of fine art prints. Jim and Alma Houston, and subsequently Terry Ryan, encouraged those who were coming into the settlement to make drawings. They supplied the materials. Some, like Kenojuak Ashevak, took to … Read More
Itee Pootoogook: Itee’s Kinngait
In 1972 the National Film Board of Canada established an animation workshop in the unlikeliest of places: Cape Dorset. Just over eight minutes into the workshop’s lauded first release, Animation from Cape Dorset (1973), a hand-written title card announces a segment entitled, “New photos by Itee Pootoogook and directed by same person.”[1] Pootoogook was then in his early twenties and … Read More
Sarah Milroy Talks about Itee Pootoogook’s “Itee’s Kinngait”
Feheley Fine Arts held the exhibition Itee’s Kinngait from September 21 – October 10, 2013. The show featured new drawings by Kinngait artist Itee Pootoogook (1951–2014), based on photographs taken by his colleagues Bill Ritchie and Tim Pitsiulak. Pootoogook’s coloured pencil and ink drawings were completed in a photorealist style, emulating the medium of his original source material. As part … Read More
Germaine Arnaktauyok: Drawings
Born in Igloolik in 1946, Germaine Arnaktauyok has been working as an artist since she was a child. She was formally trained – having attended courses at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art as well as commercial art courses at Algonquin Art College in Ottawa. She is best known for her amazingly detailed yet expressive print images, but she … Read More
Danny Osborne: Mile after Mile
I didn’t meet Danny Osborne until January of this year. I was on a research trip to Iqaluit and it was my first time in Nunavut. The deep impact that the land has on Osborne’s practice was clear from the moment I set foot in his studio. With a panoramic view out to the frozen sea, the studio’s high walls … Read More
Drawings by Papiara Tukiki
The renaissance in Inuit drawing has been the largest development coming out of the hamlet of Cape Dorset in recent years. Historically the print release was the economic engine of the cooperative, an operation that began in the late 1950s and continues to this day. Drawings were the source for the output of prints that has shaped the artistic product … Read More