Where were you in 1962 when Parr’s compelling stonecut Man and Whale was released in the Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection? Would anyone then have predicted that the young co-operative art studio in a small Arctic hamlet would go on to become the longest continuously-running print studio in Canada? Today, prints from the annual collections sit in private and public … Read More
Wild Things: Prints by Artist Papiara Tukiki
Papiara Tukiki (b. 1942) is an elder artist currently living in Kinngait (Cape Dorset). She was born at a camp in Nuwatta, located on the Foxe Peninsula on the southern end of Baffin Island. Tukiki lived in camps until 1962 when she moved into the settlement community at Kinngait. Shortly before the move, she began to experiment with drawing while … Read More
Artist Talk with Saimaiyu Akesuk and Papiara Tukiki
This year Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to be the Canadian Host Gallery for the 2015 Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection. Along with our preview of the first edition prints, we are delighted to be hosting a gallery talk on Friday, October 16, from 1-3 pm with two wonderful artists featured in this year’s collection, Papiara Tukiki and Saimaiyu Akesuk. … Read More
Fifteen Years: A Snapshot of Kinngait Drawing (2000-2015)
First Generation Drawing on paper was initially introduced in Cape Dorset in the late 1950s, to produce images that could later be used for prints. However, approaching the twenty-first century, a number of elders embraced the idea of drawing as a finished art form, rather than as a step in the printmaking process. Among these artists were Kananginak Pootoogook, Kenojuak … Read More
Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection at Feheley: “The Hand of the Artist”
Feheley Fine Arts is proud to announce the release of the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection. A tradition since 1959, the collection includes lithographs, etchings and stonecuts from eleven different artists. This annual event receives a large amount of attention from art collectors because no more than fifty editions of each print are created; every year, the release is met with … 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