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Artist Bio: Eegyvudluk Pootoogook (b. 1931)

Eegyvudluk Pootoogook is an Inuit printmaker and graphic artist who lives in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. She was born in Ikirasak camp in the Northwest Territories. Her work is highly esteemed in the Inuit art world and her work is nationally and internationally recognized. Her work can be found in private and public collections, notably the National Gallery of Canada.

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Artist Bio: Eegyvudluk Ragee (1920-1983)

Egevadluq Ragee was an Inuit graphic artist born at the camp of Ikarassak, in the Southern tip of Baffin Island. She was married to the carver and graphic artist Sakiassie Ragee. Her daughter Sorosoluto Onalik is a graphic artist and carver, now living inÊIqaluit.

When Eegyvudluk’s daughter reached the age of four, she married again, to Sakkiassie. Together they adopted four children and lived first at Nuvudjuak, then later moving to Tikerak, some eight miles from Cape Dorset. Eegyvudluk began to draw in 1959 when she would travel to the settlement of Cape Dorset to trade for supplies. She would obtain graphite pencil and paper from the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (now Kinngait Co-operative). Her early work filled entire sheets of paper filled with mythical creatures, bird-animal-human transformations, and images from everyday life in the North. By the mid-1960s, Eegyvudluk utilized colour in her drawings such as from wax crayons and coloured felt pens.

In 1967, improved housing in Cape Dorset resulted in the Inuit abandoning most of the campsites. Eegyvudluk moved into the settlement, however this change in her life did not affect her artistic output. In the early 1970s, Eegyvudluk explored the use of acrylic washes for her human-bird themes.
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