Shuvinai Ashoona’s Woven Thoughts at Feheley Fine Arts

Feheley Fine Arts is proud to present a new solo exhibition of recent drawings by Shuvinai Ashoona. Curated by Nancy Campbell, Woven Thoughts is drawn in the artist’s characteristic style, and features images that combine the real and the imaginative worlds of Shuvinai Ashoona. The artist’s work is continuously gaining momentum and exposure; her artwork has been exhibited alongside the … Read More

Shuvinai Ashoona: Woven Thoughts

Shuvinai Ashoona, from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, is one of the few Inuit artists working today that has successfully managed to bridge the worlds of Inuit art with the imaginations of contemporary art lovers. Her drawings have been seen internationally in large group exhibitions, most recently in SITElines Santa Fe: Unsettled Landscapes. Shuvinai’s ability to capture the contemporary zeitgeist with delightful … Read More

The AGO Acquires Artwork from Feheley Fine Arts at ART TORONTO

The annual Toronto International Art Fair (Art Toronto) is well underway at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. After hours of installation and a successful opening night gala, Feheley Fine Arts is looking forward to a weekend in Booth 700. For the second year in a row, the Art Gallery of Ontario has purchased artwork from Feheley Fine Arts. Last year, … 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

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

Dorset Large: Large-scale Drawings from the Kinngait Studios

(Digitized catalogue below) The phenomenon of large scale drawings coming out of the community of Cape Dorset has attracted much interest by collectors and museums in the past few years. The initial offering of large format paper to the arctic community of Cape Dorset has been relatively recent. William (Bill) Ritchie, Studio Manager of the Kinngait Studios in Cape Dorset, … Read More

Shuvinai Ashoona: Drawings

Cape Dorset, known as Kinngait in Inuktitut, is located near the southern tip of Baffin Island. A recent study made the remarkable discovery that Kinngait is Canada’s most artistic municipality, with nearly one-quarter of its labour force engaged in art making. Most Canadians will never visit this remote community, but the work of its artists is held by the Museum … Read More

Breaking Ground: New Oil Stick Drawings from Cape Dorset

This exhibition “breaks ground” in a number of ways. First, the medium of oil stick is still a very recent innovation for Inuit artists. It was introduced in Cape Dorset in the late 1990s by Montreal-based artist Ludmilla (Mewa) Armata, who coaxed some remarkable work from senior artists such as Mayureak Ashoona and Sheojuk Etidlooie. The materials remained in the … Read More

Earth & Sky: Shuvinai Ashoona and John Noestheden

In February 2008, Canadian artists Shuvinai Ashoona and John Noestheden were invited by Wayne Baerwaldt to Calgary’s Illingworth Kerr Gallery, at the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD). Shuvinai and John were brought together in order to collaborate on a drawing measuring 28x488cm that would be reproduced to scale on a 6x43m horizontal outdoor banner. The banner, which comprises … Read More

3 Cousins: Annie Pootoogook, Shuvinai Ashoona, Siassie Kenneally

(Digitized catalogue below) Three artists share their view of the world through original drawings of land, food, dwellings, family, friends and celebrations. They find inspiration in their own experiences and environments, be it the North and their home community of Cape Dorset on Baffin Island, or travelling abroad and documenting the adventure. Annie Pootoogook, Shuvinai Ashoona, and Siassie Kenneally come … Read More

Shuvinai Ashoona: Time Interrupted

(Digitized catalogue below) Shuvinai Ashoona is not an emerging artist; her detailed ink drawings of dense landscapes have intrigued viewers for many years. In earlier works, domestic items and interwoven topographical elements lived side by side in a relationship of rich detail made possible through ink stippling and cross-hatching. Today, Shuvinai continues to work with an intense attention to detail, … Read More