Raven

The intriguing pose of the raven, one wing closed one spread as the bird calls, one eye on the viewer, all connote the characteristics of ravens as confident and inquisitive birds of intelligence. 

Serpentine stone
Approx. 23 x 8 x 13cm
Reg no. 1266900

Mathew Flaherty was born in Iqaluit on February 13th, 1998. Robert Flaherty is Mathew’s great grandfather who is the master storyteller and filmmaker of Nanook of the North. Robert Flaherty married an Inuk from Northern Quebec. His great grandparents on the other side are Kingmeata and Etidloie Etidloie, both talented artists who displayed their talents using printmaking, watercolours, acrylics, coloured pencils, felt pens and carving stone

In high school, Mathew studied jewelry making. His father bought him the tools to make the jewelry and he got his own studio. Mathew made a lot of jewelry at this time and sold these pieces to galleries.

When Mathew was 18, he started carving more seriously. He moved to Kinngait (Cape Dorset) when he was 20 where he lived with and apprenticed under his grandfather Etulu Etidloie.