ETULU ETIDLUI (ETOOLOOK; ETIDLOI; ITULU; ETIDLOOIE) Born: June 15, 1946 Male E7-989 Resides: Cape Dorset SculptureEtulu Etidlui was born on June 15, 1946. He comes from a family of well-artists from Cape Dorset, the most art productive community on Baffin Island, Nunavut.He is the son of the late graphic artists and carvers Etidloooie andKingmata Etidlooie. Etulu's younger brother Kelly is also a very talentedsculptor, known primarily for his carvings of narwhals. Omalluk Oshutsiak,their sister, excels in small scale carvings of people. There are several younger members of the family who are very gifted carvers, Mary and Pitseolak Oshutsiak, Isaac Etidlui (Etulu's son), and Toonoo Etidlui. Etulu is best known for his delicately carved loons, often in flight, thenmounted on either stone or a piece of caribou antler, as well as for his refined carvings of resting wolves. Etulu's style is highly representative of Cape Dorset art. It is rooted in a love for naturalism, with an affinityfor decorative stylisation.Etulu's carvings are made of finest serpenting of varying green shades withgold veining, smoothed and highly polished to best exhibit the beauty of the stone. Serpentine is a metamorphic rock found on Baffin Island. It is a veryhard stone with composition similar to Jade.  EXHIBITIONS: April 1976 Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition Baffin Regional School  Iqaluit, Northwest Territories March - April 1982 Songs in Stone The Arctic Circle  Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. September - October 1984 On the Land The Arctic Circle  Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. February 1993 Kunstwerke der Inuit Presented by CreARTion, Eppstein  in conjunction with the annual meeting  of the Association of Canadian Studies  at the Hotel am Badersee  Grainau, Germany COLLECTIONS: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario  GE Canada Inuit Art Collection, Mississauga, Ontario  Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia  Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba 

Exhibitions

• Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition, Baffin Regional School
• Kunstwerke der Inuit, Presented by CreARTion, Eppstein in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of Canadian Studies at the Hotel am Badersee
• On the Land, The Arctic Circle
• Songs in Stone, The Arctic Circle

Collections

• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• GE Canada Inuit Art Collection, Mississauga
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg