By Shuvinai Ashoona
Ashoona’s monumental work celebrates the artist’s home community of Kinngait (Cape Dorset) and her boundless imagination. It’s playful and surreal, but also deeply grounded in Inuit stories.
Shuvinai Ashoona. Curiosity, 2020. Coloured pencil, graphite and ink on paper, Overall: 127.5 × 268 cm. Purchase, with funds from the Joan Chalmers Inuit Art Fund, 2020 © Shuvinai Ashoona / Dorset Fine Arts, Photo courtesy Feheley Fine Arts