Ringo Inuk Drummer

The Inuk drummer joyfully pounds his stone drum kit. There is repetition of a series of blocks, circles and sticks which the drummer interacts with, and which visually conveys an energy and rhythm. 

Serpentine stone, bone
Approx. 8 x 8 x 8cm
Reg no. 6677R

Pitsiulaq (Pitseolak) Qimirpik 1982- 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. Indeed, Qimirpik has successfully distinguished himself through this very juxtaposition, 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 artworld, 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.