Octopus From a Strange Town Print
In celebration of Shuvinai Ashoona’s 2024 Governor General’s Award, Dorset Fine Arts is pleased to release 10 unique sets of 10 hand-coloured etchings in a special release print collection "GOING BETWEEN WORLDS."
2023
Etching & Hand-Colouring
Paper: Velin d’Arches White
Printer: Studio PM
73 x 63.5 cm
Variable Edition of 10*
If you are interested in edition 06, please email us at shop@craftontario.com to inquire - edition 02 and 03 are readily available.
Shuvinai Ashoona (b. 1961) was born in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. She is the daughter of Kiawak Ashoona and Sorosilutu, both well known for their contributions to the arts in Cape Dorset.
Shuvinai began drawing in 1996. She works with pen and ink, coloured pencils and oil sticks and her sensibility for the landscape around the community of Cape Dorset is particularly impressive. Her recent work is very personal and often meticulously detailed. Shuvinai’s work was first included in the Cape Dorset annual print collection in 1997 with two small dry-point etchings entitled Interior (97-33) and Settlement (97-34). Since then, she has become a committed and prolific graphic artist, working daily in the Kinngait Studios
Shuvinai’s work has attracted the attention of several notable private galleries as well as public institutions. She was featured along with her aunt, Napachie Pootoogook, and her grandmother, the late Pitseolak Ashoona, in the McMichael Canadian Collection’s 1999 exhibition entitled “Three Women, Three Generations”. More Recently she was profiled along with Qavavau Manumie of Cape Dorset and Nick Sikkuark of Gjoa Haven in the Spring 2008 issue of Border Crossings, a Winnipeg-based arts magazine.