(Digitized catalogue below) 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 … Read More
Cross-Currents: Cape Dorset in the 1960s
(Digitized catalogue below) 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 … Read More
The Ryan Collection: Early Cape Dorset Sculpture
(Digitized catalogue below) Foreword The world is by now familiar with the art of Cape Dorset, but few know the man behind the scenes who has facilitated and furthered this international success. Forty years have passed since Terry Ryan’s first visit to Cape Dorset in 1958. His arrival in the north coincided with a period of dramatic change in the … Read More
The Sculpture of Kenojuak Ashevak & Joanassie Igiu – 1978-1981
Kenojuak Ashevak and Joanassie Igiu lived together in Cape Dorset from 1978 until Joanassie’s death in 1981. This exhibition features sculpture created by both of these artists during this brief time. Born in 1927, Kenojuak Ashevak lived on the land until the mid-1960’s when she and her late husband Johnniebo settled permanently with their family in Cape Dorset. She began … Read More