Goose, Rex Kangoakhttp://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Holman/english/artists/index.php3#c7b. 1965Rex Goose is best known as a carver, but he has been active in the graphic arts at Holman since 1978. He is from a family of artists. His father, Bill Goose (1943-1989) made drawings and prints in the early 1960s, and his grandmother is the well-known artist Agnes Nanogak Goose (1925-2001). He recounts being "overwhelmed" by all the people making art when he was growing up. His ambition was to become an artist as well. His drawings have been made into prints for annual collections since 1982.Goose specializes in miniature carvings. He makes these from ivory, antler, whalebone, and more recently, from the white alabaster that was discovered 100 kilometres from Holman in 1997. He has had two solo exhibitions of his sculpture at Northern Images in Yellowknife in 1994 and 1996.From an interview with Rex Kangoak Goose by Darlene Coward Wight, Holman, May 2000

Exhibitions

• Arctic Mirror, Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Arts from the Arctic, Anchorage Museum of History and Art
• Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary
• Holman Prints *82, (annual collection)
• Holman Prints *84, (annual collection)
• Holman Prints *85, (annual collection)
• Holman Prints *86, (annual collection)
• Holman Prints *88, (annual collection)
• Holman Prints *90, (annual collection)
• Inspiration Four Decades of Sculpture, Marion Scott Gallery
• Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990, Arctic Artistry
• Inuit Survival, Enook Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario Presented at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery
• Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
• Major/Minor, Marion Scott Gallery
• Miniaturen, Inuit Galerie
• Nagdjuk: Gift of the Caribou, Art Space Gallery
• Spirit of the Birds, Gallery of the Arctic
• Sulijuk:The Sculpture of Rex Goose, Northern Images
• The Great Northern Arts Festival, held in Inuvik
• The Prints Never Seen: Holman, 1977-1987, Albers Gallery of Inuit Art
• This Is My World, Presented by Jordan Fine Arts at the Windmill Gallery
• Visions of Rare Spirit: 20 Years of Holman Prints, Port Colborne Library

Collections

• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg