Contours: New Landscape Drawings by Tony Anguhalluq

Since making his exhibition debut in 2006, Baker Lake resident Tony Anguhalluq has continued to evolve his unique approach to image making. Working mainly in the medium of drawing on paper, he has developed a distinctive artistic vision in which the landscape plays a central role. Colourful, abstract and contemporary, Anguhalluq’s spatially ambiguous images are concerned less with capturing the look of the northern landscape and more with evoking its unique feel and spirit.

This exhibition, Anguhalluq’s fourth with Marion Scott Gallery, continues to chart the growth and evolution of
this remarkable artist. Contours: New Landscape Drawings by Tony Anguhalluq showcases the artist’s strong capacity for technical experimentation and exploration. As in his earlier work, these drawings have been created without reference to the rules and conventions of uniform perspective that govern much landscape work created in the Western tradition. Many of the drawings have been produced in part with the new medium of oil sticks, giving them a rich, colourful density of expression.