Little Circle

1973

Canadian, 1960 - 1985

Oonark is hailed as one of the greatest artists to have come from the Baker Lake artistic co-operative. Spending the first fifty years of her life within Utkusiksalingmiut camps near the Haningayok (Back River) region, she spent much of her creative talents processing and sewing caribou and sealskin to produce clothing. Much of this early sewing work of Oonark’s informed how she would approach the printmaking medium. The isolated and fragmented forms in her pieces, come together to form bold imagery of Inuit life.

Stonecut print

9 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (23.8 x 25.7cm)

Gift of the John Henry Hauberg Family

2003.133

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Indigenous Matrix: Northwest Women Printmakers, June 15 - Dec. 11, 2022.

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