With a 30-year-long practice under his belt, Qavavau Manumie is a senior artist and master printer at Kinngait Studios. Most recently featured at the Toronto Biennial and at the Feheley Fine Arts booth at Art Toronto, Manumie’s drawings are delightfully idiosyncratic. Straddling the illustrative and the abstract, Manumie uses satirical wit and a draftsman-like precision to reflect on some of the most pressing issues of our time.

In 2019, Kinngait artist Shuvinai Ashoona created a special suite of large-scale, hand-coloured etchings printed by Montreal printmaker, Paul Machnik. The result: four sets of otherworldly prints like nothing seen before. These mind-bending works—each one uniquely hand-painted by the artist herself—blur the line between printmaking and painting by bringing together the best of both worlds. This suite marks not only Ashoona’s first major foray into the medium of watercolour, but also the first time that she has hand-coloured etchings herself,…

In Canada, summer is precious. It marks the few months a year we experience long days and an abundance of sun. In the Arctic, temperatures may be milder, but days are exceptionally longer. With them they bring various wildlife and ideal circumstances to spend extended periods of time out on the land. For Summer Select, we have brought together an excellent selection of our favourite works which speak to all aspects of the season – vibrance, animals, sun-led expeditions, and…

The small Arctic community of Coral Harbour—known as Salliq in Inuktitut—is home to a number of talented sculptors who transform unconventional materials in extraordinary ways. This selection of sculpture proves that there are no limits when it comes to media, whether it be whalebone, antler, stone, baleen, and sinew. Featuring works by Daniel Shimout, Henry Nakolak, Johnny Kataluk, Kupapik Ningeocheak, and more.

Kinngait-based artist Quvianaqtuk Pudlat only began his artistic career in 2017 and has already taken the art world by storm with his dynamic drawings. Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present a solo-exhibition of both large and small-scale drawings by the artist that expand on his earlier depictions of Arctic wildlife. Agile foxes and contorted caribou are among a few of the spectacular subject matter that Pudlat explores in this new body of work.