Nicotye Samayualie
Nicotye Samayualie has developed an artistic vision that engages with a formalized everyday to exploit fully the possibilities of graphic expression. Fascinated by the patterns found in nature and on man-made objects, Samayualie’s meticulously rendered images include botanical drawings of plants in fields of layered grass or in colourful pots; still lifes based on a range of everyday contemporary and traditional objects; and landscapes picturing the rocky northern terrain in and around Cape Dorset (Kinngait) where the artist lives. Her aerial views of rivers streaming over pebbled beds are at once abstract and carefully detailed.
Nicotye Samayualie was born in 1983 in Kinngait. She comes from a family of artists: her mother, Kudluajuk Ashoona, is a drawer and printmaker, and her grandmother was Keeleemeeoome Samayualie, a well-known graphic artist whose images were included in the Cape Dorset annual print collections throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Inspired by the example of her elder relative, Nicotye began making her own drawings in 2010.
