![]() ![]() “This place gives them that chance to express themselves,” he said. “And they never get a chance to express their full potential. “There are so many people in the North who have these phenomenal capabilities, who are driving cabs or hauling freight,” Shirley said. Those stories come alive in the expressive human and animal faces that peer out of the many ceramic pots which comprise the gallery’s permanent collection. “Inuit don’t work that way - most of the work that’s done here is stream of consciousness.” ![]() Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. ![]() “There’s this idea that you start out with an idea of what you want to do, but that’s more of a southern or western thing,” he said. Buy The Little Matchboy: A Contemporary MM Little Matchgirl Retelling by North, Jackie from Amazons Fiction Books Store. When asked about what inspires the centre’s art, Shirley says that much of the work produced through the Matchbox Gallery is narrative, but rarely planned. “If it wasn’t for this place, I don’t know think any clay work would exist here,” Aksadjuak said, as he fashioned four caribou legs for his latest sculpture. Another “funeral” boat sculpture portrays a dead hunter lying across the boat’s floor.Īksadjuak learned from the best his late father Laurent Aksadjuak was another founding member of the gallery, renowned for his soapstone, clay and ivory work. Shirley is drawn to Aksadjuak’s boat sculptures one detailed piece shows a group of traditionally-dressed Inuit hunters in a motor boat. ![]()
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