A detail of a 2005 drawing by Nick Sikkuark (1943 – 2013) is featured on the cover of the summer 2022 issue of Inuit Art Quarterly. Sikkuark’s delicately rendered image of a network of multicoloured intertwining and overlapping snakes, each terminating in the human-like head of a shaman, is a testament to the artist’s unique ability to invoke traditional themes through a style of graphic expression that revels in contemporary formal exploration and experimentation. Sikkuark’s work will be the subject of a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada in 2023.
