Technique: Drawing Sex: Female mother of Kakulu File Location: University of British Columbia - Fine Arts LibraryNational Gallery of Canada - Library and ArchivesWinnipeg Art Gallery - Clara Lander Library------------BiographyBorn Canada: Northwest Territories, Iqaluit area on 22 December 1911Died in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, 4 September 1980Artist StatementWe lived out at camp for a long time. When we came here, I started to draw, That was 1963 maybe. I don't remember the year exactly. I just remember that people started drawing while I was out camping. I took my drawings to Terry Ryan. It was hard when I first started drawing.I used to watch my daughter Kakulu drawing, and I thought to myself I couldn't do that. But my daughter told me that I could do it. I started to draw then. I learned from my daughter. I have not seen my daughter's drawings for a long time now. She does not look at my drawings either.I neve think about my drawings being made into prints when I make them. It makes me happy when they are made into prints though. I never thought about my drawings going down South. Now that I think about that, it makes me think that I will have to think very hard before I draw!When I finish my drawings, I put them on the wall next to my bed, and I just look at them. I don't really think about if i like them or not. One time, though, I started to think that my drawings are pretty good. I said to myself, "this time, they won't put them in the garbage!"I try to make straight lines when I draw. It is hard for me to make straight lines. It was getting hard for me to draw just on the paper so I started to cut a piece of cardboard and started to trace around it.I move the cardboard to another palce on the paper and trace around it again. That's how I draw sometimes. I have to think first before I cut the cardboard - think about how the drawing will look. I draw only what comes to my head.The prints turned out pretty good. I don't like my drawings when I draw them sometimes. After they have been printed, they are pretty good, and then i like them. -------Ikayukta TunnillieBorn Canada: Northwest Territories, Iqaluit area, 22 December 1911Died in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, 04 September 1980

Exhibitions

• Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian Arctic Producers
• Cape Dorset Graphics *71, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *72, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *74, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *75, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *76, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *78, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *79, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *80, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Revisited, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
• Cape Dorset Revisited - a collection of previously unreleased prints, exhibited at selected commercial galleries, organized by, West Baffin Eskimo Co-op
• Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary
• Ikayukta Retrospect: Stonecuts, lithographs and drawings from 1972 to 1980, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Inuit Art: from the collection of Maurice Yacowar, Collector's Gallery
• Inuit Drawings, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990, Arctic Artistry
• Inuit Graphics from the Past, Arctic Artistry
• Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare Prints from the Arctic, Arctic Artistry
• Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987, Arctic Artistry
• On the Land, The Arctic Circle
• Return of the Birds, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Strange Scenes: Early Cape Dorset Drawings, McMichael Canadian Collection
• The Cape Dorset Print, Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
• The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man

Collections

• Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
• Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
• Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury
• McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
• Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
• Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
• University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg