Homer Simpson - Dancing Muskox

 This sculpture is more than the sum of it's parts. The carver skillfully refreshes a tradition of portraying shamanic transformation in stone through the captivating recombination of lovable, bumbling cartoon figure Homer Simpson and the resilient muskox.

Approx. 12 x 9 x 23cm
Serpentine stone
Reg no. 1270870

Pitseolak Qimirpik is a young Cape Dorset carver who’s quickly established himself as both apprentice (his father is renowned Dorset carver Kelly Qimirpik) and contemporary artist.

Qimirpik has successfully distinguished himself, marrying pop-culture signifiers with traditional carving. He sits at the helm of a surging generation of Inuit artists who are reconfiguring their position onto history, traditional media and narrative figuration. It’s a group who’s establishing itself through an aesthetic more easily situated in the contemporary art world, while never fully divorced from its ancestral associations and formal base. Qimirpik, like so many of his contemporaries, continues to make the link between the two.