PROVENANCE
Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto
A Prominent Private Collection

LITERATURE
Nancy Campbell, Annie Pootoogook: Cutting Ice, 2017, page 80 and 84

Winner of the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2006, Annie Pootoogook (1969-2016) was a groundbreaking figure, widely celebrated for her honest renderings of modern life in the northern community of Kinngait (Cape Dorset).

Pootoogook’s family was active in the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, her parents were artist Napachie Pootoogook (1938–2002) and carver and printmaker Egeevudluk Pootoogook (1931–2000), and her grandmother was renowned artist Pitseolak Ashoona (c. 1908 – 1983). Pootoogook honed her drawing skills in the 1990s, working alongside Elders at the Co-op studio. In “Annie Pootoogook: Cutting Ice”, Nancy Campbell remarked that Pootoogook embraced the Co-op system of apprenticeship, where one learns by observation. Pootoogook’s drawings adapt the subtly lighthearted sensibility of traditional Inuit drawings to contemporary subject matter. Compositional components which otherwise may have been considered mundane, are rendered with eye-catching, delicate detail. Nancy Campell has noted how Pootoogook’s domestic interiors are often a compilation of many homes in Kinngait. Modern and unique aspects –coffee mug, wall clock or calendar – are repeated variously, evoking familiarity, routine and the simple passage of time.

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