studio p.m.

Tuesday 9 June to Saturday, 18 July 2015.

Opening Friday, June 12 17:30.

biography

In1972 I began as an apprentice printmaker at La Guilde Graphique in Montreal. While there, the son of James Houston, the founder of the printmaking workshop in Cape Dorset, NWT, approached me to work as a printer/printmaker in the North. I didn't feel ready and so declined but the idea of working with the Inuit in the arts stayed with me. After years of persevering I got a chance in '94 to work in Cape Dorset at the behest of Terry Ryan, who at that time was the manager of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op. It was a highlight of my career and it was an exhilarating experience to work face to face with some of the most renowned artists of our time. It felt like a 'coming out'!

But for all this, I had the sense that other Inuit communities were not being heard. So in 1999 I applied for and received funding from the Canadian Government's Millenium Fund to undertake a series of workshops in eight communities throughout the Territory of Nunavut. It became a personal 'walkabout' with the experience being both challenging and intense. I met some incredible people along the way, both young and old, whom I will forever hold dear.

This Collection of 8 sets of prints are the result of this undertaking...