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• 1. dopesauce  |  July 15th, 2008 at 06:40

  I’m sorry,

  I know you love your Canadiana, but 90% of the Inuit / First peoples art I see is an eyesore at best.

  But maybe I’m just not hip to it’s aesthetic ;)

• 2. Seth  |  July 15th, 2008 at 16:32

  As if!! That’s a beautiful piece of design. Stunning. In fact, most inuit textile art is very exquisitely designed. Same goes for the sculpture. A wildly diverse and rich sculptural forms and styles. I admit, I don’t always like the drawings–especially the most typical of the animal prints but often, it is more a matter of my personal taste than a fault in the designer/artist.

• 3. Jeffrey  |  August 27th, 2008 at 23:20

  We used to sell this artist’s work at the Arctic Co-operatives aligned art gallery which I managed. She was consistently one of the more popular artists amongst the other Inuit who visited, as well as amongst collectors in Toronto, the States and overseas. The flattened, more modernist minded style is one of the features which first got Inuit art noticed in the 50s and 60s and while some like Annie Pootoogook are prodcing interesting work today, many — I included — prefer pieces in this style and seek it out. Beautiful work!

  – Jeffrey, Winnipeg

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