Ooloosie Saila
Cape Dorset 2022
Etching and sugarlift
44 3/4 x 44 7/8 in.
Jutai Toonoo: Body Landscape
Exhibition opened February 2, 2022 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 … Read More
Ohotaq Mikkigak: Imagined Landscapes
Exhibition opened November 3, 2012 Ohotaq Mikkigak is of the generation of Inuit artists who grew-up on the land and visited settlements like Cape Dorset for supplies. He fondly remembers the traditional elements of his childhood which gave him a close connection to his cultural ancestry. In 1958, after meeting his wife Qaunaq, a graphic artist, sculptor and throat singer, … Read More
Dorset Large: Large-scale Drawings from the Kinngait Studios
Exhibition opened June 10, 2011 The phenomenon of large scale drawings coming out of the community of Cape Dorset has attracted much interest by collectors and museums in the past few years. The initial offering of large format paper to the arctic community of Cape Dorset has been relatively recent. William (Bill) Ritchie, Studio Manager of the Kinngait Studios in … Read More