LOT 27 - Ningiukulu Teevee

Dorset Fine Arts

Title: Silaga Nau !?!

Dimensions: 14.96" x 11.57" (before frame)

Medium: Graphite, coloured pencil, and ink on paper

Date: 2024

Born May 27, 1963, Ningiukulu is one of the most versatile and intelligent graphic artists to emerge from the Kinngait Studios. In the fall of 2009, Ningiukulu’s first children’s book was published by Groundwood Books (a division of House of Anansi Press). Entitled Alego, it is an autobiographical story of a young girl named Alego who goes clamdigging with her grandmother for the first time and, along the way, discovers all of the wonders of the seashore. The book was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for children’s illustration. Since her first prints in the 2004 Cape Dorset Print Collection, Ningiukulu has been one of Kinngait’s studio’s most celebrated artists. She has a comprehensive knowledge of Inuit legends and a fine sense of design and composition. These elements that have made many of her prints highly sought after by collectors. Ningiukulu has had numerous solo shows of her bold and resplendent drawings and some of her work has been featured in exhibitions in major public galleries and museums.