Sorosilutu Ashoona

SOROSILUTO ASHOONA  

       (WAKTA; SOROSEELUTU; SOROSILUTU; SHOROSHILUTO; SOROSILUTOO)

       Born:  March 16, 1941       Female       E7-1172

       Resides:  Cape Dorset

       Drawings, Prints

       Sorosiluto is married to the sculptor Kiawak Ashoona.  She is the       

       granddaughter of artists Pootoogook and Ningeookaluk.  Sorosiluto is also the

       half-sister of Joanasie Solomonie.                                           

                                                                                     

       "If it weren't for Pitseolak, my mother-in-law, I don't think I would   

       have ever learned to draw. For a long time, she kept asking me to try, but   

       because I was afraid to try, it wasn't until a year later that I started.    

       Sometimes I try to do some pictures of stories I have heard about the old    

       days. Sometimes it seems when I begin to draw that, not on purpose, I am     

       drawing the same thing I have done before. Sometimes when I see the finished 

       print, I can't really remember when I did the drawing, but I like the prints 

       better than the drawings because of the colours."                            

                                                        Cape Dorset print catalogue 1978              

 

       EXHIBITIONS:

       1965, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975,           Cape Dorset Graphics

       1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980,               (annual collection)                               

       1993                                                     (illustrated catalogue)

       August - September 1968Eskimo Sculpture, Eskimo Prints and

                                                   Paintings of Norval Morrisseau                   

                                                   Art Association of Newport                       

                                                   Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       1973                                    Canadian Eskimo Lithographs:  Third Collection

                                                   Presented under the auspices of the              

                                                   Cultural Affairs Division of the                 

                                                   Department of External Affairs Canada            

                                                   Ottawa, Ontario

                                                   (tour)

                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       1975 - 1976                       Inuit Women in Transition

                                                   Department of Indian Affairs and                 

                                                   Northern Development                             

                                                   Ottawa, Ontario

                                                   (tour)

 

       1975 - 1979                       We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions

                                                   des Animaux                                      

                                                   Department of Indian Affairs                     

                                                   and Northern Development in                      

                                                   cooperation with the Department                  

                                                   of External Affairs                              

                                                   Ottawa, Ontario

                                                   (tour)

                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       May 1975                           Original Drawings by Nine Cape Dorset Women

                                                   Gallery of Fine Canadian Crafts                  

                                                   Kingston, Ontario

       October 1975 - December 1977           

                                                   Inuit Games/Inuit Pinguangit/Jeux des inuit

                                                   Department of Indian Affairs and                  

                                                   Northern Development                             

                                                   Ottawa, Ontario

                                                   (tour)

                                                   (illustrated brochure)

       1976                                   Sanasitit/Good Makers

                                                   Department of Indian Affairs and                 

                                                   Northern Development                             

                                                   Ottawa, Ontario

       1976 - 1982                       Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical

                                                   Symbolism in Eskimo Art                          

                                                   Canadian Arctic Producers and the                

                                                   National Museum of Man                            

                                                   Ottawa, Ontario

                                                   (tour)

                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       January 1977 - June 1982The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit

                                                   Department of Indian Affairs and                 

                                                   Northern Development and the                     

                                                   National Museum of Man                           

                                                   Ottawa, Ontario

                                                   (tour)

                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

 

       August 1978                      Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E.

                                                   Lee Collection of Prints                         

                                                   University of Alberta                            

                                                   Edmonton, Alberta

                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       November - December 1978  

                                                   Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics

                                                   Jerusalem