Tim Pitsiulak Exhibition Opening Saturday

After a weekend of wonderful events involving Tim Pitsiulak, emerging as a major talent on the Canadian contemporary art landscape, at both Art Toronto and the VIP brunch in our gallery, we are now preparing for the opening this Saturday of our third major solo exhibition by this talented artist. Tim Pitsiulak won new friends and admirers at Art Toronto … Read More

Itee Pootoogook’s “Itee’s Kinngait” Has Left the Building

Itee Pootoogook‘s most recent exhibition “Itee’s Kinngait” at Feheley Fine Arts, was a great success! Despite the opening being on a wet and gloomy Saturday afternoon, there was a large turnout to view Itee’s most recent contemporary landscapes. The opening remarks, given by writer Sarah Milroy, captivated the group and were followed by an question-and-answer period with the artist. Watch the … Read More

Itee Pootoogook: Itee’s Kinngait

(Digitized catalogue below) 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 in his … 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

Sarah Milroy Talks about Itee Pootoogook’s “Itee’s Kinngait”

Feheley Fine Arts held the exhibition Itee’s Kinngait from September 21 – October 10, 2013. The show featured new drawings by Kinngait artist Itee Pootoogook (1951–2014), based on photographs taken by his colleagues Bill Ritchie and Tim Pitsiulak. Pootoogook’s coloured pencil and ink drawings were completed in a photorealist style, emulating the medium of his original source material. As part … Read More

Germaine Arnaktauyok: Drawings

Born in Igloolik in 1946, Germaine Arnaktauyok has been working as an artist since she was a child.  She was formally trained – having attended courses at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art as well as commercial art courses at Algonquin Art College in Ottawa.  She is best known for her amazingly detailed yet expressive print images, but she … Read More

Drawings by Papiara Tukiki

(Digitized catalogue below) 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 has shaped … 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

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

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