Northern Rock Susan Gustavison (1999)I've been carving since I was about 12 so it's been quite a while now. My parents were camping at that time. I started carving two pieces---a bird and a polar bear. ...I think i learned the most from my father [Lukta Qiatsuk] or from other artists---the older artists just by watching.----------------www.spiritwrestler.comOne of the three sons of master carver Lukta Qiatsuk, Padlaya began carving at the age of twelve and credits his father and other elder carvers as influences. From his father, he learned a deep respect for the land, and this admiration shows in his treatment of wildlife subjects. He says that he has fun making art, and he likes to carve figurative works, with transformational themes being his favourites.----------------Palaya Qiatsuq was born in Cape Dorset and began carving around 1977. He learned to carve from his father, the well known sculptor and print maker Lukta Qiatsuk. Padlaya works in soapstone and and bone, and carves each sculpture with much attention to detail."I like to carve transformations. That's one of my favourite themes, and shamanismÉ when I do transformation or shamanism carvings, I hope the younger people will see the carving in a book or in a gallery. I want them to know that these traditions have to be carried out. How do I put this? They have to know that our ancestors had a hard time to live, to hunt. Sometimes they were starving. Those carvings are important to me and I want to show these younger people, and others, that this happened before."canadahouse.com-----CollectionsAmway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, MIExhibitions2001 Small Sculptures By Great Artists, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON2000 Padlaya Qiatsuk: The Artist's Hand Inuit Sculpture Portfolio, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC2000 Seven Emerging Artists From Cape Dorset, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC1998 Sculpture From The Canadian Arctic, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON1997 Stone & Bonde, The Inuit Master Carvers of the Canadian Arctic, The Northwest Company, Sun Valley Centre for the Arts and Humanities, Ketchum, ID1997 Singing & Dancing & Playing, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON1996 Small Sculptures by Great Artists V, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON1995 Miniaturen, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, Germany1994 The Great Northern Arts Festival, Inuvik, NU1994 Three Young Carvers From Cape Dorset and Drawing by Aoudla Pudlat, Albers Gallery, San Francisco, CA1993 The Theme of Transformation in Inuit Sculpture,The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery, Toronto, ON1993 The Next Generation - Inuit Sculpture, Gallery Indigena, Stratford, ON1993 Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset, Art Space Gallery, Philadelphia, PA1991 Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture Exhibition, Vancouver Inuit Art Society, Vancouver, BC1989 Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Amway Corporation, United Nations General Assembly, New York, NY1989 Arctic Images: Major Sculptures by Canada's Leading Contemporary Inuit Artists, D/Erlien Fine Art Ltd, Milwaukee, WI1988 Tundra and Ice: Stone Images of Animals and Man, Orca Aart, Chicago, IL1987 L'art Inuit, l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Chambre de Commerce de Chateauroux, France1986 A New Selection of Masterful Sculptures from Cape Dorset, Houston North Gallery, Lunenburg, NS1986 L'art et la Matiere: Peintures au Sable de Claude Durand - Sculptures d'Art Esquimaux Conseil Municipal, Deauville-Touques, FranceOur Land Transforming: Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of the Inuit, Arctic Raven Gallery, Friday Harbour, WAPublications2005 Cape Dorset Sculpture FEATURED PAGE 98, 991989 MASTERS OF THE ARCTIC: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Ada, MI, Amway Corporation----------------Padlaya Qiatsuk   Born: May 10, 1965 Male E7 — 2193Resides: Cape DorsetSculpturePadlaya was born in Cape Dorset and began carving around 1977. He learned to carve from his father, the well-known sculptor and printmaker Lukta Qiatsuq. Padlaya works in soapstone and bone, and carves each sculpture with much attention to detail.Exhibitions:May 1986 Anew Selection of Masterful Sculptures from Cape Dorset Houston North Gallery Lunenburg, Nova Scotia July — August 1986 L'art et la Matiere: Peintures au sable de Claude Durand — Sculptures d'art Esquimaux Conseil Municipal Le comite d'Animation Culturelle Deauville-Touques, France October 1987 [L'Art Inuit]Presented by l'Iglou Art Esqimau, Douai at Chambre de Commerce de Chateauroux France. October 1988 Tundra and Ice: Stone Images of Animals and Man. Presented by Orca Aart at the Adventurers' Club Chicago, Illinois February 1989 Artic Images: Major Sculptures by Canada's Leading Contemporary Eskimo (Inuit) Artists at D/Erlien Fine Art Limited Presented by Ocra Aart, Chicago Milwakee, Wisconsin, USA June 1989 Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Presented by the Aroway Corporation at the Untited Nations General Assembly New York, New York, USA (tour) (illustrated catalogue)June — September 1991 Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture Exhibition (second exhibition) Vancouver Inuit Art Society Vancouver, British Columbia March — April 1993 The Theme of Transformation in Inuit Sculpture Gallery Indigena Stratford, Ontario October — November 1993 Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset Art Space Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA July 1994 The Great Northern Arts Festival held in Inuvik Northwest Territories, Canada November — December 1994Three Young Carvers from Cape Dorset and Drawings by Aoudla PudlatAlbers GallerySan Francisco, California, USA November — December 1995 Miniaturen Inuit Galerie Mannheim, Germany (brochure) November 1996 Small Sculptures by Great Artists V Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario February — April 1997 Stone & Bone The Inuit Master Carvers of the Canadian Arctic The North West Company Held at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities Ketchum, IdahoJune 1997 Singing & Dancing & Playing Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario (brochure) November 1998  Sculpture from the Canadian Arctic Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, OntarioCollections:Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, USASelected References:Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks. Ada, Michigan, Amway Corporation, 1989.Last Revised: November 1998© Inuit Art Section, INAC

Exhibitions

• A New Selection of Masterful Sculptures from Cape Dorset, Houston North Gallery
• Arctic Images: Major Sculptures by Canada's Leading Contemporary Eskimo (Inuit) Artists, at D/Erlien Fine Art Limited presented by Orca Aart, Chicago
• Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture Exhibition (second exhibition), Vancouver Inuit Art Society
• L'art et la Matiere: Peintures au sable de Claude Durand - Sculptures d'Art Esquimaux, Conseil Municipal Le Comite d'Animation Culturelle
• Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Presented by the Amway Corporation at the United Nations General Assembly
• Miniaturen, Inuit Galerie
• Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset, Art Space Gallery
• Small Sculpture by Great Artists: The Younger Generation, Feheley Fine Arts
• The Next Generation--Inuit Sculpture, Gallery Indigena
• The Theme of Transformation in Inuit Sculpture, The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
• Three Young Carvers from Cape Dorset and Drawings by Aoudla Pudlat, Albers Gallery
• Tundra & Ice: Stone Images of Animals and Man, presented by Orca Aart at the Adventurers' Club
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Chambre de Commerce de Chateauroux

Collections

• Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada