Cape Dorset Sculpture: Derek Norton & Nigel Readinghas been making art since he was a tgeenager and is credited as a printmaker in the 1961 Cape Corset print release.In 1970 he received first prize for his sculpture 'Taloolayook and Man' in the Northwest Territories Centennial Sculpture Competition (the piece was presented to HRH Queen Elizabeth II). his sculpture from the early 1960s alredy had the fluidity of line and use of cutaway that are now characteristic of his work --------------Inuit Artists Print Workbookson of Peter and Alashua Aningmiuqis the previously unidentified printer, who produced three stencils in the 1961 collection from drawings by Lucy, Ohotok and Eegyvudluk Ragee (personal communication: James Manning, WBEC, 1988)---------------------Awards1970 First Prize for his sculpture "Ttaloolayook and Man" in the NWT Centennial Exhibition/Competition, sculpture presented to HRH Queen Elizabeth IICollectionsArt Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ONCanadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, QCDennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MIH.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II, London, UKMcMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, ONMusee d'art Inuit Brosseau, Quebec City, QCMusee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, QCPrince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, NTWinnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MBCredits1974 Travelled to Windsor, ON to participate in "Art in the Park", sponsored by the Art Gallery of WindsorExhibitions2001 Living Arctic, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC1999 The R.D. Bell Collection of Inuit Art, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON1999 Horizons, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC1997 Stone & Bone: The Inuit Master Carvers of the Canadian Arctic, The Northwest Company, The Sun Valley Center for Arts & Humanities, Ketchum, ID1995 The Birds of Cape Dorset: A Collection of Sculpture by 32 Cape Dorset Carvers, Albers Gallery, San Francisco, CA1994 Kanuitpit? Kunst und Kulturen der Eskimo: Eine Auswahl aus den Museumssammlungen Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde Munchen, Munich, Germany1994 Eegyvudluk Pootoogook - Eyeetsiak Peter - Axangayu Shaa Exhibition, Inuit Art Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC1993 - 94 The Inuit Imagination, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1993 Sculpture & Graphics from Cape Dorset, Art Space Gallery, Philadelphia, PA1991 Taste of the Wild, Orca Aart Gallery, Chicago, IL1991 Cape Dorset Sculpture, McMaster Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON1991 Granville Island Canadian Inuit Scultpure Exhibition, Vancouver Inuit Art Society, Vancouver, BC1991 Inuit Sculpture, displayed with the 1991 Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA1989 Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, United Nations General Assembly, New York, NY1988 - 89 Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960 - 1965, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1987 The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1985 - 86 Selected Canadian Sculpture, Webster Galleries, Calgary, AB1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1985 New Beginnings: A Celebration of Native Expression at the First Native Business Summit, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON1984 Canadian Inuit Art, Canadian Arctic Producers, City Hall, Nuuk/Godthab, Greenland1982 Songs in Stone, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, CA1980 Cape Dorset, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1980 La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea Goddess, Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, QC1975 Cape Dorset - Selected Sculpture from the Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1974 Inuit Sculpture 1974, Lippel Gallery, Montreal, QC1974 Eegeechiak, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON1970 Sculpture, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, competition/exhibition organized for the Centennial of the N.W.T., Yellowknife, NT1967 Eskimo Sculpture, Winnipeg Art Gallery, presented at Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg, MB1961 Cape Dorset Print CollectionPublications2005 Cape Dorset Sculpture FEATURED PAGE 521993 The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth & Sculpture, Harold Seidelman and James Turner, pub. by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, BC & Toronto, ON1989 Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Amway Corporation, Ada, MI1988 Monuments in Stone: Recent Sculpture from Cape Dorset, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, ON1987 Swinton Colleciton of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art, Bernadette Driscoll, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1980 La Dresse Inuite de la Mer - The Inuit Sea Goddess, Nelda Swinton, Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, QC1979 Cape Dorset, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1975 Cape Dorset: Selected Sculpture from the Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB1975 Modern Eskimo Art, Erwin A. Bauer, Oceans, vol. 41972 Sculpture of the Eskimo, George Swinton, pub. by McLelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON1970 Sculpture, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Ottawa, ON

Exhibitions

• Canadian Inuit Art, Sponsored by Canadian Arctic Producers at City Hall
• Cape Dorset, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Cape Dorset - Selected Sculpture from the Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *61, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Sculpture, McMaster Art Gallery
• Eegeechiak, Art Gallery of Windsor
• Eegyvudluk Pootoogook-Eyeetsiak Peter- Axangayu Shaa Exhibition, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Eskimo Sculpture, Winnipeg Art Gallery presented at the Manitoba Legislative Building
• Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture Exhibition (first exhibition), Vancouver Inuit Art Society
• Inuit Sculpture 1974/Sculpture Inuit 1974, Lippel Gallery
• Inuit Sculpture: Displayed in Conjunction with the 1991 Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection, Muscarelle Museum of Art
• Kanuitpit? Kunst und Kulturen der Eskimo: Eine Auswahl aus den Museumssammlungen, Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde Munchen
• La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea Goddess, Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
• Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Presented by the Amway Corporation at the United Nations General Assembly
• New Beginnings: a celebration of Native expression at the first Native Business Summit, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
• Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Sculpture, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council a competition/exhibition organized as a contribution to the Centennial of the N.W.T.
• Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset, Art Space Gallery
• Selected Canadian Sculpture, Webster Galleries
• Songs in Stone, The Arctic Circle
• Taste Of The Wild, Orca Aart
• The Birds of Cape Dorset: A collection of sculpture by 32 Cape Dorset Carvers, Albers Gallery
• The Inuit Imagination, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery

Collections

• Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
• H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II, London
• McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
• Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg