Annie Pootoogook | Lovers’ Embrace. 2004
I keep coming back to Annie. An incomparable artist and storyteller. She is deeply missed but her genius, care and strength lives on through the worlds she drew.
Jutai Toonoo | Palliqniq. (detail) 2015
“A cutting-edge contemporary artist, sculptor, jeweler and graphic artist, Jutai Toonoo created works that rarely conformed to the traditional assumptions about the style and substance of Inuit art.
Toonoo belongs to the middle generation of Inuit artists who hover somewhere between the old and new worlds of the Arctic, negotiating an identity that is at once introspective and worldly. His work, often enlivened by the use of text, blends traditional and modern themes and provides commentary on social concerns such as isolation, drug and alcohol addiction, the search for identity and contemporary global issues.” Feheley Fine Arts
Annie Pootoogook | Making Love. 2003-2004
Annie Pootoogook depicted Inuit life as contemporary and complex, often tackling difficult subjects such as poverty, abuse and communal struggles. Pootoogook also depicted Inuit love and sex, a topic rarely discussed in conversations around Indigenous art. Pootoogook pulled no punches and her work opened up new conversations in the Indigenous art world and brought Inuit experiences to the foreground of contemporary art.