The new Kinngait (Cape Dorset) 2009 prints collection has just arrived down south and is now available in our gallery !
 
The 2009 collection of Kinngait count thirty six prints, made out of different techniques of making prints : stonecut, lithograph, serigraph, aquatint, etching, stencil. Itee Pootoogook, Kananginak Pootoogook, Kavavaow Mannomee, Kenojuak Ashevak, Mayoreak Ashoona, Ningeokuluk [...]

Have you ever seen a dancing bear represented into carving, print or drawing by an Inuit artist ? Of course you did and it is not surprising because in Inuit art, dancing bear is the most popular iconographic subject. We can see so many artworks illustrating dancing bears on the international art market !  But [...]

Kangiqliniq is an Inuit community located on the West coast of Hudson Bay. Kangiqliniq means in Inuktitut «the bay» and Rankin Inlet is its English name : the town was named by owners of the Rankin Inlet Mine which produced nickel and copper ore there between 1957 and 1962. The mine was the more important [...]

Kuujjuaraapik is the most southern Inuit community in Canada, located on the west coast of Nunavik in Northern Quebec. Kuujjuaraapik is known by different names as people from different languages and cultures lived and still live today there : it was called Kuujjuaraapik « the little great river » in Inuktitut, Whapmagootsi « where there [...]

I never learn how to speak English. Also, I was never taught how to be an artist, but I’m not a really good artist, but I have tried. [...] When I was a boy, I used to try to do carving. I only started drawing seriously when drawing was encouraged in Pangnirtung by Gary Magee.
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This week, I let you share the extract of a text written by Minnie Aodla Freeman, an Inuit woman, accomplished writer and translator:
Although I am neither an artist nor famous, I was involved with these artists [in Kinngait] as an Inuit writer. […] The woman artists were all born here or in the outlying camps. [...]

Kananginak Pootoogook : “We like to keep our culture through carvings and prints. Those art pieces are very valuable : they tell of the past.” (1)
Pitaloosie Saila : “You don’t just do drawings […] you express yourself. It is also a way of life, a part of life. Life is sometimes heavy […] you have [...]

Kenojuak Ashevak, well-known Inuit artist from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in Nunavut received on Friday, March 28 in Ottawa The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, Canada’s foremost distinctions for excellence in these artistic disciplines, were created in 1999 by the Governor General of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts.
” I just [...]