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Osuitok Ipeelee RCA (Inuktitut: ᐅᓱᐃᑐ ᐃᐱᓕ, [1] 23 September 1923 - 2005 [2]) was an Inuk sculptor who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.His sculptures in green soapstone of caribou and birds are particularly valued for their balance and delicacy.
The site consists of over 150 carvings of faces in soapstone. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was created by the Dorset people , the culture who inhabited the Canadian eastern Arctic and Greenland beginning approximately 2,200 years ago before disappearing approximately 1,000 years ago, and who inhabited the region prior to the Thule Inuit who arrived ...
The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art (Winnipeg Art Gallery) Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic (Canadian Eskimo Arts Council and Vancouver Art Gallery) [7] The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection of Inuit Art (Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina) The Abbott Collection of Inuit Art (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
The first generation of Inuit artists in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset) in the 1940s and 1950s sold their carvings to the Baffin Trading Company (1939–1946) and the Hudson's Bay Company. The West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative was founded in Kinngait in 1959 and became the primary purchaser of arts and craft items.
The Naujaat community continues to rely on traditional sealing, fishing, hunting, trapping, and carving for their livelihood, together with tourism. Naujaat is known for its Inuit artists , especially carvers (typically creating small realist animal sculptures of ivory, soapstone, marble and antler), as well as jewellery and crafts.
Kavik was born in Sanikluaq. [2] In 1968, the Lofthouse Galleries in Ottawa staged a solo exhibition of Kavik's work. [3] [4]Kavik's work is held in several museums worldwide, including the British Museum, [5] the National Gallery of Canada, [6] the University of Michigan Museum of Art, [7] the Winnipeg Art Gallery, [8] and the National Museum of the American Indian. [9]
The qulliq, a type of oil lamp, is carved out of soapstone and used by the Inuit and Dorset peoples. [13] The soapstone oil lamps indicate these people had easy access to oils derived from marine mammals. [14] In the modern period, soapstone is commonly used for carvings in Inuit art. [15]
The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from 500 BC to between 1000 CE and 1500 CE, that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Thule people (proto-Inuit) in the North American Arctic. The culture and people are named after Cape Dorset (now Kinngait) in Nunavut, Canada, where the first evidence of its existence was found. The culture ...
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