2016
Cape Dorset Print Collection

Cape Dorset Print Collection

Sewing Day
Timmiaralaaq (Little Bird) (CD16-10)
Pauojoungie Saggiak
Stonecut & Stencil, 13" x 23"
Sunday Afternoon
Treasures of the Sea (CD16-12)
Pauojoungie Saggiak
Lithograph, 22" x 30"
Polar Bear in Camp
Counting Char (CD16-13)
Pauojoungie Saggiak
Lithograph, 22" x 30"
Global Currents
Sheltered Calf (CD16-14)
Pitseolak Niviaqsi
Etching & Aquatint, 26" x 26"
Global Currents
Rutting Caribou (CD16-15)
Pitseolak Niviaqsi
Etching & Aquatint, 24" x 26"
Luminous Bird
All Aboard (CD16-16)
Pitseolak Niviaqsi
Etching & Aquatint, 31" x 34"
Song Birds
Accordion Player (CD16-17)
Malaija Pootoogook
Etching & Aquatint, 26" x 24"
White Raven
Early Lesson (CD16-18)
Malaija Pootoogook
Etching & Aquatint, 15" x 18"
Horned Muscox
Magic Ulu (CD16-19)
Ningeokuluk Teevee
Stonecut & Stencil, 13" x 15"
Chasing the Loon
Neutralizer (CD16-20)
Ningeokuluk Teevee
Stonecut, 24" x 17.5"
Looking Back
My New Boots (CD16-21)
Ningeokuluk Teevee
Stonecut & Stencil, 24" x 18"
Courting Birds
Coastal Spirit (CD16-22)
Ningeokuluk Teevee
Etching & Aquatint, 30" x 44"
Purple Bear
Tip Toe Through the Tundra (CD16-23)
Ningeokuluk Teevee
Stonecut, 24" x 31"
Twilight Raven
Okpik's Calico (CD16-25)
Ningeokuluk Teevee
Stonecut & Stencil, 14.5" x 12"
Guiding Sedna
Green Feathers (CD16-26)
Kakulu Saggiaktok
Stonecut, 19" x 24"
Sparkling Loon
Glowing Kudlik (CD16-27)
Ningiukulu Nungusuituk
Stonecut & Stencil, 15" x 23"

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Invitation

Gallery Phillip is pleased to announce the Cape Dorset 2016 Print Collection, which consists of 27 prints by 7 talented Inuit artists. This year's collection features the artwork of Pitseolak Niviaqsi, Ningiukulu Nungusuitok, Tim Pitsiulak, Malaija Pootoogook, Pauojoungie Saggiak, Kakulu Saggiaktok and Ningeokuluk Teevee. Since 1959, Cape Dorsert has showcased the best in Inuit art, thus earning its title as Inuit art capital of the world. Artists work collaboratively in Kinngait Studios in Cape Dorset, Nunavut by applying their incredible technical skills in printmaking to create a record of their cultural heritage and history.

Gallery Phillip's collection extends from the early 1960's to the present day. We invite you to take a look at this year's collection (and past ones too!) and participate in the sale, which opens on Saturday, October 15th, 2015. We are also sad to announce that two Kinngait artists, printmaker Pitseolak Niviaqsi and reknowned sculptor Jutai Toonoo, both passed away in late 2015. Niviaqsi's contributions to this year's collection are an appropriate homage to his career in printmaking, while Toonoo's sculptures will continue to carry his legacy for many years to come.

Preview: Thursday, October 13th and Friday, October 14th, 10:30 am - 6 pm
Sale Opening: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 at 9:00 am
Where: Gallery Gevik, 12 Hazelton Avenue

Since 1959 the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection has showcased the best and brightest Inuit art from West Baffin Island. More than a half century of printmaking has developed the technical sophistication and innovative aesthetic which has become a hallmark of Kinngait Studios. Each collection tells us a new story, and this year’s latest chapter is an homage to Inuit art history and cultural heritage. Whether it is depictions of wildlife or legend, Inuit people or the land, the work of Ningiukulu Nungusuituk, Pitseolak Niviaqsi, Tim Pitsiulak, Malaija Pootoogook, Pauojoungie Saggiak, Kakulu Saggiaktok and Ningeokuluk Teevee finds fresh inspiration in tradition.

Sometimes true to the past while other times turning what came before upside down, the work in this collection truly moves forward while looking back. From an adorned pair of boots to a stiletto wearing raven and with a grouping of psychedelic sea shells alongside a gently sleeping polar bear, this visual narrative unfolds with authenticity, whimsy, reverence and insight. From a methodological point of view, well represented in this year’s collection are lithography and etching - approaches which best demonstrate a fluidity and complexity of line. Equal measures artful and alchemic, lithography employs the principle that oil and water shall never mix and etching brings to bear the corrosive consequences of acid on metal.

Couple an exceptional creative vision with astute material understanding and extreme patience, we have the master printmaker capable of harnessing the potential of these two techniques. Unique to the Kinngait repertoire is stonecut - a process that is both arduous and elegant. The printing matrix is meticulously hand-fashioned out of actual stone, sometimes worked over a period of months. A surface is scraped, gouged, chiseled - literally mined by the printmaker - and at its finest, the process is a contradiction. The level of detail extracted from solid stone can result in a print image that is lively, nimble even ethereal.

Sadly, part of this year’s story is the loss of two Kinngait innovators Pitseolak Niviaqsi and Jutai Toonoo. They will be missed, but their voices will surely live on through the results of their lifetime of art making. Dorset Fine Arts is pleased to present this compendium of prints! For the last 57 years, the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection has been anticipated and treasured worldwide. We are privileged to have had the past 57 opportunities to present the celebrated work of Cape Dorset’s Inuit artists. And for a creative community that is now more than 57 years in the making, we can’t wait to see what’s yet to come.

- William Huffman, Dorset Fine Arts

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Daphne OdjigDaphne Odjig, Canadian Indigenous Artist and Icon Dies at 97. Click here for more details.

Odjig is frequently referred to as the "Grandmother of Indigenous Art." She has been the recipient of many awards, honours and recognitions for her works, to name a few: The Order of Canada, the Governor General's Award, and eight Honorary Doctorates. Her works have been shown in the National Gallery of Canada, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Art Gallery of Ontario.


She established the first native-run fine art print house in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1971. Known as 'Odjig Indian Prints,' this print house was so successful that it evolved into an Indigenous gallery space in 1974, called the New Warehouse Gallery, run by Odjig and her husband, Chester Beavon. She was also a founding member of the Indian Group of Seven. This artistic group's purpose was to promote Contemporary Indigenous art and artists.

Alex JanvierAlex Janvier's major retrospective, "Alex Janvier: Modern Indigenous Master" is now open at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario until January 21st, 2018. Afterwards, it will travel to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.

This exhibition was recently on display at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina. Alex Janvier is one of Canada's most acclaimed contemporary artists. His career of sixty-five years has yielded thousands of paintings, and more than twenty-five murals and public commissions. (Photo credit: Kim Griffiths)

Rita LetendreGallery Gevik congratulates renowned Canadian and International abstract painter, Rita Letendre, on her first major museum retrospective exhibition outside of Québec. Rita Letendre: Fire and Light is now open until September 17, 2017 at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

This exhibition, which covers Letendre's career from the 1960's to 2000's, is co-curated by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik. The retrospective features nearly forty large-scale paintings drawn from major national public and private collections.

Letendre was widely exhibited with the artistic groups, Les Automatistes and Les Plasticiens. She has received the Governor General's Award in Visual Arts, the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas, and the Orders of Canada, Ontario and Québec. Click here for more details.