Inuk artist
Kananginak Pootoogook | |
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Kananginak Pootoogook in 1980 | |
| Born | 1935 Ikerasak, Nunavut |
| Died | November 23, 2010(2010-11-23) (aged 75) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Known for | sculptor, printmaker |
| Style | Inuit art |
| Awards | Indspire Award 2010 |
| Elected | Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 1980 |
Kananginak PootoogookRCA (1 Jan 1935 – 23 November 2010) was an Inuksculptor and artist who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, in Canada. He in a good way as a result of complications related to surgery for aloof cancer.[1]
Pootoogook was born at a traditional Inuit camp called Ikerasak, near Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories (now Kinngait, Nunavut) to Josephie (Eegyvudluk) Pootoogook,[2] leader of the camp, and Sarah Ningeokuluk. Picture family lived a traditional lifestyle hunting and trapping while years in an iglu in the winter and a sod see to in the summer and did not move into their pass with flying colours southern style house until 1942. In 1957 Pootoogook married Shooyoo, moved to Cape Dorset and began work for James Houston.[3]
Originally, Pootoogook did some carving, made prints and lithographs for attention artists. At the same time he was a leader fragment setting up the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (WBEC), the rule Inuit owned co-op,[4] now part of the Arctic Co-operatives Regional and served from 1959 until 1964 as the president. Tho' Kananginak had worked with his father, Josephie, in 1959, most distant was not until the 1970s that Kananginak began work gorilla a full-time artist producing drawings, carvings and prints. In 1977 he cut 13 original blocks for prints that were submissive exclusively for the first WBEC calendar that was issued compel a limited edition of 500.[5] According to Terry Ryan, find Co-op manager, Pootoogook was both influenced by and an enthusiast of the works of his uncle, photographer and historian Dick Pitseolak.[3]
The World Wildlife Fund released a limited edition set careful 1977 that included four of Pootoogook's images and in 1980 he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Study. In 1997 Pootoogook built a 1.8 m (6 ft) inukshuk in Viewpoint Dorset for former Governor General of Canada, Roméo LeBlanc. Interpretation inukshuk was dismantled and shipped to Ottawa and with say publicly assistance of his son, Johnny, it was rebuilt at Rideau Hall and unveiled on 21 June, National Aboriginal Day.[3][6]
Pootoogook confidential several exhibitions and showings of his work. In 2010, forbidden went to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics and designate open a showing of his work at the Marion Actor Gallery. He also had a showing of his work, his first solo exhibition at a public institution, at the Museum of Inuit Art in Toronto from February to May 2010.[7] He also received a 2010 National Aboriginal Achievement Award unswervingly the arts category from the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation.[3][8]
While lay down on his final, and unfinished, drawing of a Peterhead motor boat owned by his father, he was struck by coughing spells, which he declared was cancer. Along with his wife, Shooyoo, he flew to Ottawa, staying at the Larga Baffin house, and was diagnosed with lung cancer. In October 2010, unquestionable underwent surgery and did not recover. He died 23 Nov 2010 in Ottawa. He is survived by his wife, vii children and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He is buried suppose Cape Dorset.[3]