Looking Back

Lithograph
Paper: Arches Cream
Printer: Niveaksie Quvianaqtuliaq
38 x 57.5 cm

QAVAVAU MANUMIE

Qavavau was born in Brandon, Manitoba in 1958 where his mother, Paunichea, was hospitalized for treatment of tuberculosis. He returned to Kinngait (Cape Dorset) as a very young child and has lived there since.

For several years Qavavau has worked for the Kinngait Studios as a printmaker - first in the lithography studio and more recently in the stonecut studio. He is an accomplished and precise printmaker who enjoys the opportunity to demonstrate printmaking techniques to young artists and visitors to the studio.

Qavavau lives with his wife and son Peter in Kinngait.