Inuit Art at Canadian Textile Museum

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Textile Museum of Canada

A new exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada tells the story of a little-known group of Inuit artists and printmakers who produced bold graphic textiles in Kinngait, Nunavut, in the 1950s and 1960s – a period of social change that disrupted traditional language and relationships to the land.

Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios / ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ opens in Toronto on Dec. 7 and runs until Aug. 30. It will tour throughout Canada in 2021.

The collection, on loan from the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, features works by Kenojusak Ashevak, Pitseolak Ashoona, Parr and Pudlo Pudlat, alongside interviews and oral histories from the Kinngait community and present-day Kinngait artists Jimmy Manning, Johnny Pootoogook, Malaija Pootoogook, Ooloosie Salie and Ningiukulu Teevee.

The exhibition also feature work from three contemporary Inuit fashion designers – Martha Kyak, of InukChic; Nooks Lindell, of Hinaani Designs; and Tarralik Duffy of Ugly Fish.

No other public collection of Inuit printed textiles is known in Canada, says the museum, which is producing a full-colour illustrated catalogue and online resources. 

Source: Textile Museum of Canada