Nick Sikkuark: All the Shamans Got Together
In a career that spanned five decades, Kugaaruk’s Nick Sikkuark produced some of the most wonderfully unsettling images ever to come out of the North. This exhibition, the first to focus on Sikkuark’s work since his death in 2013, will comprise nineteen images on paper produced between 2004 and 2010, along with one sculpture from the mid-1990s. Like his sculpture, Sikkuark’s delicately crafted drawings are often inspired by the transforming powers and supernatural strengths of Inuit shamans.
Nick Sikkuark
untitled (face inverted into landscape), 2004, coloured pencil on paper, 13.75 x 11 in.
Nick Sikkuark
untitled (Inukshuk after sunset), 2004, coloured pencil & graphite on paper, 12 x 15.25 in.
Nick Sikkuark
untitled (flying shamans with wolf spirit), 2004, coloured pencil & graphite on paper, 12 x 9 in.
