Lisa Simpson Dino

An elemental form, upon closer inspection, is an endearing combination of dinosaur and cartoon figure Lisa Simpson.  The carving is simple with intent and confident in execution.

Approx. 9 x 10 x 19cm
Serpentine stone
Reg no. 1271116 

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.