Padloo Samayualie
Cape Dorset 2018
lithograph
15 x 22 1/4 in.
Fusion: Collaborative Drawings
Exhibition opened May 25, 2023 The notion of collaboration has existed at the Kinngait Studios since its inception. In the late 1950s, the concept of printmaking was introduced involving two players—artist and printer—to work in tandem to produce a graphic. Fast forward to 2022: Johnny Pootoogook, Shuvinai Ashoona, and Quvianaqtuk Pudlat each collaborate on a single drawn composition titled Head … Read More
Post-Fair: Plural 2023
We are back from this year’s Plural contemporary art fair (formerly Papier) and are feeling better than ever. It was great to return to the Grand Quay in the art-loving city of Montreal. The newly renamed art fair featured an impressive lineup of galleries from across Canada, including fresh faces from Vancouver and Halifax. Witnessing the fair’s growth over the … Read More
Exhibition: Fusion – Collaborative Drawings from Kinngait
During an experimental two-year period, artists working at the Kinngait Studios created a number of incredible collaborative drawings. Using the “exquisite corpse” method coined by the surrealist art movement, the process involved two or more artists collaborating on a drawn composition on paper, sometimes without seeing the portion drawn by the previous artist. Featuring contributions by Shuvinai Ashoona, Ningiukulu Teevee, … Read More
Art Toronto 2022 Recap
We can hardly believe Art Toronto 2022 has already come and gone! While last year’s fair was smaller in scale, this year The Metro Toronto Convention Centre was alive with a full host of galleries from across Canada and internationally.This year, our booth featurednew contemporary drawings by Kinngait artists Quvianaqtuk Pudlat, Qavavau Manumie, Shuvinai Ashoona, Saimaiyu Akesuk, Ooloosie Saila, Johnny … Read More
Twelve by Twelve
Exhibition opened June 28, 2022 We are pleased to present the group exhibition Twelve by Twelve, featuring 12 stellar works by 12 great Inuit artists. Expertly selected by Pat Feheley herself, these works represent the breadth and diversity in style and subject presented by artists from the Canadian North. Artists in the show come primarily from Kinngait, Nunavut, with the … Read More
A brief history of Kinngait printmaking
The world-renowned Kinngait Studios has welcomed experimentation and innovation in printmaking for over six decades. Many may be familiar with the story of its infancy, featuring Southern artist James Houston and his wife Alma, who were sent North by the Canadian government in the 1950s to establish an arts and crafts program in Kinngait. But the stars of this story … Read More
Catalogues
Exhibition Catalogues Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to make available a digitized library of our past exhibition catalogues. These catalogues documented some of the gallery’s most notable shows, including solo exhibitions for Tim Pitsiulak and Shuvinai Ashoona, and group shows featuring artistic families or works from prominent private collections. Along with exhibition essays and photographs of rarely seen artworks, the … Read More
Artists
Selected Artists Feheley Fine Arts is proud to represent a roster of exclusively Inuit artists from each of the emerging, mid, and established career levels. Our artists are based in both the North and South, coming from various communities across the Canadian Arctic including Kinngait (Cape Dorset) and Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake), as well as cities in the South—from Vancouver to … Read More
Celebrating Kudluajuk Ashoona
Exhibition opened March 6, 2020 Artist Kudluajuk Ashoona began drawing in 2011 when her daughter, Nicotye Samayualie, invited her to the art studio where she regularly worked. From there, Kudluajuk went on to pursue a career in the graphic arts for nearly ten years, working primarily in drawing and sometimes printmaking. Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present the exhibition … Read More
60/60: Sixty Years of printmaking in the Kinngait Studios
Exhibition opened October 12, 2019 In celebration of the Kinngait Studios’ 60th anniversary, this exhibition features an unbelievable collection of Cape Dorset prints—one from each year since the studios’ inception. The graphics chosen acknowledge the many artists who passed through the studios over six decades, highlighting their innovations in style, technique, scale, printmaking type, and subject matter. Formally established in … Read More