Kenojuak Ashevak

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Cultural Background: Inuit from Ikirasaq, southern coast of Baffin Island (in Arctic Ocean of Northern Canada)

Like many Inuit artists, Kenojuak Ashevak has spent most of her life living on the land in a manner not unlike that of her ancestors. She was born at the south Baffin Island camp of Ikirisaq, and grew up travelling from camp to camp on south Buffin and in Canadaโ€™s Eastern Arctic.

Kenojuak first began experimenting with drawing and stone carving in the late 1950s. Her early work appeared in the Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collections, launching a career that would include numerous national and international commissions, special projects and exhibitions. Her life and art have been the subject of a film produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and a book entitled โ€œGraphic Arts of the Inuit: Kenojuakโ€, published in 1981.

Kenojuak Ashevak has been accorded many honours for her achievements. She received the Order of Canada in 1967, and was subsequently elevated to Companion of the Order. In 1993, Kenojuak was awarded Honourary Degrees from both Queenโ€™s University and the University of Toronto.

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Origine Culturelle: Inuit from Ikirasaq, southern coast of Baffin Island (in Arctic Ocean of Northern Canada)

Comme bon nombre dโ€™artistes inuits, Kenojuak Ashevak a passรฉ une grande partie de sa vie en contact รฉtroit avec la nature, comme lโ€™ont fait avant elle ses ancรชtres. Elle est nรฉe dans la camp dโ€™Ikirisaq, au sud de lโ€™รle de Baffin, et a grandi en se dรฉplaรงant dโ€™un camp ร  lโ€™autre dans le sud de lโ€™รle de Baffin et dans lโ€™est de lโ€™Arctique canadien.

Mme Ashevak a commencรฉ ร  se familiariser avec le dessin et la sculpture sur pierre vers la fin des annรฉes1950. Ses premiรจres ล“uvre ont รฉtรฉ prรฉsentรฉes dans le cadre des Collections dโ€™art graphique de Cap Dorset, et ont lancรฉ une carriรจre qui compte de nombreuses commandes nationales et internationales, des expositions et des projets spรฉciaux. Sa vie et son art ont fait lโ€™object dโ€™un film produit par lโ€™Office national du film du Canada, et dโ€™une livre intitulรฉ Graphic Arts of the Inuit: Kenojuak, publiรฉ en 1981.

Les ล“uvres de Kenojuak Ashevak ont mรฉritรฉ plusieurs rรฉcompenses. Elle a reรงu le prix de lโ€™Ordre du Canada en 1967 et fut รฉlevรฉe ensuite au rang de Compagnon de lโ€™Ordre. En 1993, lโ€™Universitรฉ Queenโ€™s at lโ€™Universitรฉ de Toronto lui ont confรฉrรฉ un diplรดme honoraire.

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