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Caribou in soapstone by Osuitok Ipeelee, Dennos Museum Center. Inuit sculptures had been produced prior to contact with the Western world. They were small-scale and made of ivory. In 1951, James Houston encouraged Inuit in Kinngait to produce stone carvings. [24] It was mostly men who took up carving.
Eyetoaq married James Kingilik, also a soapstone sculptor, [2] in the early 1950s. [3] They had seven children, five biological and two adopted. [3] In 1968 they moved from their traditional Inuit camp at Beverly Lake to the Baker Lake settlement. [2] [3] After moving, they lived in a tent for two months due to a lack of housing. [3]
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 ...
Angutitok used soapstone, ivory and whalebone in her art. Some of her sculptures portray scenes from the Bible; she was encouraged by Father Bernie Franzen. She also created sculptures of female figures. [1] In 2002, Canada Post created a Christmas stamp based on her sculpture Mary and Child. [2] [5]
1986: Carved an Inukshuk for the first Native Business Summit at the Toronto Convention Centre. [3] 1989: Appointed to UNESCO's Canadian Committee for the World Decade of Cultural Development. [3] 2000 - appointed to the Sculptors' Society of Canada, the first Inuit artist to be elected. [3] 2022 - Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media ...
She created many carvings from soapstone and thousands of drawings, etchings, stone cut prints and prints — all sought after by museums and collectors. [17] She designed several drawings for Canadian stamps and coins, and in 2004 she created the first Inuit-designed stained-glass window for the John Bell Chapel in Oakville, Ontario. In 2017 ...
She co-authored the story of contemporary Inuit art of Canada in the book catalogue which she edited for her major survey exhibition, Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art (2014) which drew on 250 pieces from the gallery’s collection and was co-published by the gallery and Douglas & McIntyre.
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