Collage

Animal, marine and human entities all combine into one otherworldly figure of pale green stone, highlighting an interdependence between the creatures. A fish in dark green stone, passes through the form, it's head protruding through one side and its tail curving through the other, providing a sense of motion and forward energy.

Approx. 11 x 11 x 21cm
Serpentine stone
Reg no. 1269841 

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.