20. Pleasant Evening - 2026 CAPE DORSET Annual Print Collection

2026 CAPE DORSET Annual Print Collection

Official release date for sale, Saturday October 17, 2026
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NICOTYE SAMAYUALIE
Pleasant Evening
Lithograph
Paper: BFK Rives Tan
Printer: Niveaksie Quvianaqtuliaq
42.5 x 60.7 cm

Dorset ID # 26-20

Nicotye Samayualie  ᓂᑯᑦᑕᐃ ᓵᒻᒪᔫᐊᓕ

Nicotye Samayualie was born on November 25, 1983. She is the daughter of Kudluajuk Ashoona and Johnny Tunnillie Samayualie. Nicotye’s grandmother, Keeleemeeoomee Samayualie was a well known graphic artist whose prints were represented in the Cape Dorset annual print collections throughout the 1970’s and 80’s.

Nicotye is fascinated by patterns and arrangements of disparate objects in nature and man-made materials. Many of her drawings depict everyday items such as the contents of a pantry shelf, a table of shiny fishing lures or boxes of camping supplies.

Nicotye has had her original drawings shown at the Toronto Art Fair and in 2013 her work was featured in an Italian publication, ‘Annie e le Altre’, an ambitious scholastic study that explored the role of women artists in Cape Dorset.

Dorset Fine Arts was established in Toronto in 1978 as the wholesale marketing division of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. The Co-operative is in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut and is unique among the Arctic Co-operatives for its focus on the arts and artists of the community. Dorset Fine Arts was established to develop and serve the market for Inuit fine art produced by the artist members of the Co-operative.