After a nationwide touring solo exhibition, a feature in the Berlin Biennial, winning the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, and a subsequent retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario; Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of stellar new drawings by Shuvinai Ashoona. Aptly titled Kinngait Visions, the exhibition brings together twenty-two recent works by the artist that focus on … Read More
Themes in Inuit Art: Mother and Child
We’re overjoyed that our own Elyse recently welcomed a baby girl into the world! In honour of the new mom and baby, we decided to take a look at one of the most common subjects depicted in Inuit art—the Mother and Child. From early sculptures of Inuk mothers cradling children or keeping babies warm in their hoods, to the many … Read More
Toronto Biennial Patrons Learn about 60 Years of Cape Dorset Printmaking
This month, Feheley Fine Arts was thrilled to host patrons of the Toronto Biennial for an art talk centred around printmaking in Cape Dorset. To set the scene, Pat began the talk in Centre Space in front of Shuvinai Ashoona’s monumental drawing of Kinngait showing audience members where Canada’s longest continually running printmaking studio is located. An overview of Cape … Read More
John Hartman: Kinngait Memories
In November 1989 I spent a month in Cape Dorset, as a visiting artist and guest of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative. It was a wonderful experience for me. I loved the barren landscape, the strong and clear forms of the surrounding mountains. I was captivated by the hunters who were dragging their boats with skidoos across the harbour ice … Read More
Exhibitions & Events
Current Exhibition Arnaqu Ashevak A Retrospective March 12 – April 4, 2026 View Exhibition 2 events found. Views Navigation Event Views Navigation List List Month Today Upcoming Upcoming Select date. March 2026 Fri 13 March 12 – April 4 Exhibition: Arnaqu Ashevak – A Retrospective Opening March 12th, our upcoming exhibition is a retrospective of acclaimed multimedia artist Arnaqu Ashevak. … Read More
Shuvinai Ashoona: Time Interrupted
Shuvinai Ashoona is not an emerging artist; her detailed ink drawings of dense landscapes have intrigued viewers for many years. In earlier works, domestic items and interwoven topographical elements lived side by side in a relationship of rich detail made possible through ink stippling and cross-hatching. Today, Shuvinai continues to work with an intense attention to detail, stunning colour and … Read More
Art by Women
Foreword At the dawn of the twenty-first century, some people might question the necessity of another exhibition devoted to the artistic expression of Inuit women. Surely, they would say, the point has been well made in over twenty group exhibitions (and even more solo exhibitions) of Inuit women’s art since the mid-1970s in galleries across North America. And yet, reviewing … Read More
Sanaasimasiatok
Cape Dorset is a centre of artistic excellence, internationally renowned for finely finished sculpture and confident graphics. It is not the sheer quantity of art produced in Dorset, but the quality which is legendary. Hold your breath while handling a fragile loon by Sheokjuk Oqutaq or a spirit composition by Tukiki Manomie. Admire the Audubon-like realism of Kananginak Pootoogook’s animals … Read More
Cross-Currents: Cape Dorset in the 1960s
Foreword by Terry Ryan My recollections of Cape Dorset during the notable decade of the 1960s unlike the frenetic sixties here in the Southern Hemisphere, was of a place only slowly awakening from a long period of relative tranquility. Our Federal Government of that time had only recently shown an expressed interest in things north of 60 degrees, and the … Read More