Tim Pitsiulak’s “Looking Back, Looking Forward”

Feheley Fine Arts was packed with attendees for the opening reception of Tim Pitsiulak‘s latest exhibition, “Looking Back, Looking Forward.” The highly successful opening was enhanced by having the artist’s warm presence in the gallery; the crowd was captivated by Tim Pitsiulak and Sarah Milroy’s thoughtful opening remarks, conversation, and entertaining question and answer period. Our illustrated catalogue “Looking Back, Looking Forward,” featuring Sarah Milroy’s … Read More

Tim Pitsiulak: Looking Back – Looking Forward

Exhibition opened November 2, 2013 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, … Read More

Champagne brunch for Art Toronto

On Sunday October 27, during Art Toronto, Feheley Fine Arts hosted a champagne brunch as part of the Art Toronto VIP programme. This event was held to celebrate the Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group’s Visiting Artists programme, inaugurated in 2012/2013.   This innovative initiative allows artists from Cape Dorset, Nunavut to travel  to southern Canada for residencies, while southern artists travel to … Read More

The AGO acquires artwork from Feheley Fine Arts at ART TORONTO

The annual Toronto International Art Fair (Art Toronto) is well underway at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. After hours of installation and a successful opening night gala, Feheley Fine Arts is looking forward to a weekend in Booth 700. For the second year in a row, the Art Gallery of Ontario has purchased artwork from Feheley Fine Arts. Last year, … Read More

Itee Pootoogook: Itee’s Kinngait

Exhibition opened September 21, 2013 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 … Read More

Opening soon: Itee Pootogook’s “Itee’s Kinngait”

Feheley Fine Arts is proud to host Toronto’s return of artist Itee Pootoogook with his most recent solo exhibition, Itee’s Kinngait. The exhibition directly relates to the Cape Dorset region where Itee resides, and it is evident that the northern landscape and his local community significantly influenced his bright and colourful drawings. Itee Pootoogook has a long history with Feheley … Read More

Drawings by Papiara Tukiki

Exhibition opened April 20, 2013 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 … Read More

Shuvinai Ashoona: Shuvinai’s World(s)

Exhibition opened September 15, 2012 From her earliest works, the art of Shuvinai Ashoona has been informed by the influences of community, history and personal experience, and the spiritual connections made through memory, story and fantasy. Over time, the emerging field against which these influences played out has been the rock strewn shore of Cape Dorset, which for millennia has … Read More

Jutai Toonoo: Body Contemplation

Exhibition opened April 21, 2012 All of Jutai Toonoo’s drawings seem deeply personal. Described by William Ritchie, manager of the Kinngait Studios, Toonoo’s process is an “explosion of emotion… a fit of anger or joy.” At the same time, this volatility is “balanced by his spectacular work. He’s got an incredible eye and an incredible use of colour. He’ll dive … Read More

Drawing Attention: Recent Work by Tim Pitsiulak

Exhibition opened November 5, 2011 Tim Pitsiulak has come to represent the archetype of the contemporary Inuit artist. His style is highly individual, yet infused with influences from his culture’s traditional past and complex present-day life. Born and raised in Kimmirut, Nunavut, Tim moved to the community of Cape Dorset around 2001. His parents, Temela and Napatchie Pitsiulak were carvers. … Read More

Itee Pootoogook: An Arctic Lens

Exhibition opened October 15, 2010 Although Itee Pootoogook is an emerging graphic artist, his career began many years ago. He was a carver in the 1970s and in the 1980s sold his first drawing to Terry Ryan, then manager of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. It has not been until the last five years that Itee has focused his work … Read More