Romeo Ekerkik began carving in the early 1960s, while he was living in Tikiraruaq (Whale Cove), north of Arviat. His wife, the late Martha Iperiak, was well-known for her beaded wallhangings. Romeo would often carve the antler faces that she would sew into her wallhangings.

"Eekerkik's carvings reflect his traditional life as a hunter. Rather than presenting solitary figures 'with nothing surrounding them' he prefers 
to create composite scenes which portray the pursuit of the animal or the hunter's successful capture of his prey."*

Romeo carved with a variety of materials, but was well-known for his creative and unique works in antler. "During the mid-70s, Eekerkik began to use a propane torch, burning marks into his figures to enliven the bleached whiteness of the antler."* He also used paint to highlight or provide colourful detail antler sculpture.

*Bernadette Driscoll, Winnipeg Art Gallery, JulyAugust, 1982, page 9

Exhibitions

• Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian Arctic Producers
• Canadian Inuit Art, Sponsored by Canadian Arctic Producers at City Hall
• Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, presented at the General Assembly Building, United Nations
• Eskimo Point, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Eskimo Point Sculpture: Stone & Bone, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
• Eskimo Point/Arviat, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Inuit Art in the 1970s, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre
• Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Inuit Masterworks, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Inuk, Inuit: Art et tradition chez les esquimaux d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, presented by L'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Musee des Beaux-arts d'Arras
• Keewatin Sculpture: Reflections of the Spirit, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• L'art et la Matiere: Peintures au sable de Claude Durand - Sculptures d'Art Esquimaux, Conseil Municipal Le Comite d'Animation Culturelle
• Masterwork Sculpture 1985, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• People of the Caribou, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Romeo Erkerkuk of Eskimo Point, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
• Sculpture from Eskimo Point/Prints from Pangnirtung, The Arctic Circle
• The Way We Were - Traditional Eskimo Life, Snow Goose Associates
• Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery

Collections

• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Eskimo Museum, Churchill
• Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg