I didn’t meet Danny Osborne until January of this year. I was on a research trip to Iqaluit and it was my first time in Nunavut. The deep impact that the land has on Osborne’s practice was clear from the moment I set foot in his studio. With a panoramic view out to the frozen sea, the studio’s high walls … Read More
Ohotaq Mikkigak: Imagined Landscapes
(Digitized catalogue below) 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, in Nuvukjuac, … Read More
Shuvinai Ashoona: Shuvinai’s World(s)
(Digitized catalogue below) 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 edged and … Read More
Tanya Tagaq: Sight and Sound
Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Tanya Tagaq at their Toronto gallery. This is the first such exhibition for this well-known Inuit singer. We are also pleased to announce a special performance by Tanya Tagaq in the gallery, Saturday June 16 at 4pm. Tanya Tagaq was born and raised in Cambridge Bay, … Read More
Reception for Jutai Toonoo: Body Contemplation
Feheley Fine Arts held the exhibition Jutai Toonoo: Body Contemplation from April 21 – May 12, 2012. The show featured drawings by Kinngait artist Jutai Toonoo (1959–2015) completed in the oil pastel medium, as well as a number of stone sculptures. Works in the show centred on the theme of the human body and portraiture. The artist travelled from his … Read More
The Aayuraa Studio – Jewellery and Metalwork by Mathew Nuqingaq
In 2016, artist Mathew Nuqingaq founded the Aayuraa Studios in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Nuqingaq is a world-renowned jeweller who opened the studio as a place for Inuit metalsmiths to create. It has since hosted jewellers like Dan Wade and Barbara Akoak, and is known as a warm and welcoming space for artists, and a site for innovation in Inuit jewellery designs. … Read More
Jutai Toonoo: Body Contemplation
(Digitized catalogue below) 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 into any … Read More
DORSET NOW – Feheley Fine Arts Reopening Show at 65 George Street.
After moving to our new gallery location at 65 George Street, Toronto, Feheley Fine Arts held an inaugural reopening exhibition. The group exhibition was called Dorset Now, and ran from February 21 – March 24, 2012. It featured works of contemporary Inuit drawings by the leading artists of the Kinngait Studios, including Shuvinai Ashoona, Itee Pootoogook, Tim Pitsiulak, Jutai Toonoo, … Read More
Drawing Attention: Recent Works by Tim Pitsiulak
Feheley Fine Arts held the exhibition Drawing Attention: Recent work by Tim Pitsiulak from November 5 – 30, 2011 at 14 Hazelton Avenue, the gallery’s previous location. The exhibition featured new works by Tim Pitsiulak (1967–2016) completed in his preferred medium of coloured pencil and ink on paper. Many of the works were large scale depictions of Pitsiulak’s signature subjects … Read More
Masterful Vision: Sculpture by Jacoposie Oopakak
(Digitized catalogue below) In the Arctic, an artist can never work entirely alone. The difficulty of finding materials and a space to work is not easy, but it is the private turmoil that is most trying. An artist like Jacoposie, who has endured deep suffering, both emotional and physical, but who harbours also a profound talent for storytelling has need … Read More
The Aayuraa Studio: New Jewellery and Metalwork
Aayuraa means snow-goggles in Inuktitut, the Inuit language. As the purpose of snow goggles is to protect one’s vision, it is a fitting name for an establishment that cares for and fosters the vision of artists. Inuit art is often associated with fine, small, intricately fashioned work. From the detailed etched scenes on walrus ivory, to precious amulets and miniature … Read More
Itee Pootoogook: An Arctic Lens
(Digitized catalogue below) 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 as a … Read More