Sheojuk Etidlooie arrived as an artist late in life, developing a short but brilliant career as a graphic artist in Cape Dorset during the 1990s.

Sheojuk was born in 1932 in an outpost camp on southern Baffin Island, near the present-day settlement of Cape Dorset. She always knew that she could draw and had developed a unique sense of colour and design from years of sewing traditional patterned clothing. She began making works on paper in earnest in late 1992. In 1994, one of her images was selected for inclusion in the Cape Dorset Annual Print Release; the edition sold out within days of its release, and she was included in each subsequent annual collection until 1999. She also participated in an oil-stick painting workshop in 1999, resulting in an experimental series of brilliantly coloured oil stick paintings on board.

Sheojuk died suddenly in the spring of 1999. Feheley Fine Arts held a commemorative exhibition in the fall of that year to celebrate the remarkable though short career of this unique woman. In conjunction with Dorset Fine Arts and Studio PM in Montreal, Feheley Fine Arts has subsequently released several special posthumous Sheojuk Etidlooie print editions.

Exhibitions

• Cape Dorset Graphics *94, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *95, (annual collection)