Congratulations to Shuvinai Ashoona on her epic installation of drawings on view at the 2022 Venice Biennale. She was also awarded one of two special mentions for the Biennale’s Official Awards, alongside American artist Lynn Hershman Leeson. On Ashoona’s work, the jury commented: “Shuvinai Ashoona reveals in her drawings and paintings a profundity of indigenous Inuk cosmogonies. An existence in … Read More
Themes in Inuit Art: Sedna
Often depicted as a mermaid-like being, the mythical sea spirit Sedna figures frequently in Inuit art. Across the Arctic exist a great number of different names for the legendary figure, including Taleelayo (“the one down on the sea bottom”) and Nuliajuk (“mother of all the beasts”). Her appearance in legends and mythology reflect the fact that for thousands of years, … Read More
Brian Dedora – Read This Foto
Feheley Fine Arts is thrilled to present the exhibition Read This Foto, featuring photographic works by Toronto-based artist Brian Dedora. On view from May 3 – 21, 2022, this exhibition is in conjunction with the annual Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. Dedora’s analogue photography practice asks: “How is narrative made?” Through the use of dissonance, disruption, and misalignment, his intention in … Read More
Thin Ice: Drawings by Qavavau Manumie
Thin Ice, a solo exhibition of primarily new drawings by Qavavau Manumie, explores contemporary issues of climate change in the Arctic. Based in Kinngait, Nunavut, Manumie is a long-time observer of environmental shifts in his home community and how it increasingly affects the land, animals, and people of the circumpolar north. In keeping with his signature playful and illustrative drawing … Read More
Glowing in the Winter Light
Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of stained glass works, recently re-released from the Kinngait Studio archives. Made between 2005-2009, these fine works of colourful glass take the bold graphic images of Kinngait’s foremost artists, and translate them into a beautifully delicate art form. Glowing in the Winter Light features works by artists Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Arnaqu … Read More
Niap’s Exhibition “Piqutiapiit” at the McCord Museum
We were thrilled to attend the preview of Niap’s exhibition Piqutiapiit at the McCord Museum in Montreal. The show was the culmination of Niap’s artist-in-residence project at the museum. Her final piece: a stunning, 6 x 4 foot hand-beaded, hand-sewn wall-hanging titled Piqutiapiit, the namesake of the show. The work is an extraordinary testament to the creativity, resilience, and resourcefulness … Read More
Qavavau Manumie at the Biennale of Sydney
On view until June 13, 2022: the Biennale of Sydney in Australia, now in its 23rd iteration. Taking place every two years, the international art exhibition showcases work by compelling contemporary artists from around the world that speak to a selected theme. This year’s theme derives from the latin word rīvus, meaning small stream of water. It focuses on dynamic … Read More
Ooloosie Saila: Island Landscapes
We are thrilled to announce a special print release of the Island Landscapes print suite by Ooloosie Saila. The suite consists of three stunning prints depicting the landscape of Kinngait, Saila’s hometown and signature subject. Large and bold, the images present the Arctic landscape through a greyscale monochromatic palette that evokes a moody and magnificent atmosphere. In an exciting first, … Read More
Niap Completes Artist Residency in Finland
In November 2021, Niap travelled to Finland for a residency at the Malakata Artist Centre. The Malakata Centre brings together creatives from all over the world to cultivate ideas, art, and culture in various forms. Located in the city of Malax in western Finland, the centre was established in 2007 and since then has been host to various events, concerts, … Read More
Jutai Toonoo: Body Landscape
Jutai Toonoo was born in Kinngait, NU in 1959, the same year that the inaugural Cape Dorset Print Collection was released. He grew up surrounded by artists and naturally fell into art making himself. He started with sculpture and gradually experimented with other media like print, drawing, pastel, and painting. Across all his media, Toonoo rarely conformed to traditional assumptions … Read More
The Lithograph
What do Shuvinai Ashoona’s Tentacles (2018), Ningiukulu Teevee’s Stepping Out (2020), and Ooloosie Saila’s Festive Owl (2021), have in common? They are all lithographs—a largely popular, yet little understood method of printmaking. The art of lithography made a late arrival to the Kinngait Studios as printers began experiments in the early 1970s. In 1975, lithographs made their debut in the … Read More
Darcie Bernhardt at the AGNS
Darcie Bernhardt’s paintings are currently on view at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, in the exhibition Family Patterns. The artist’s delicate oil paintings, most of large scale, share space with the works of fellow Halifax-based artist Letitia Fraser; both of whom build on the art of traditional portraiture. Bernhardt and Fraser root their work in memories of home, … Read More