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Janet Kigusiuq

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Kigusiuq's bright, bold and graphic work focused on camp life activities like hunting and fishing and supernatural forms inspired by Inuit spirituality and stories. The source of these motifs are principally drawn from childhood experiences at the family camp,
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Sinclair, James. "Breaking New Ground: The Graphic Work of Shuvinai Ashoona, Janet Kigusiuq, Victoria Mamnguqsuuluk, and Annie Pootoogook".
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Throughout her career she experimented with many artistic mediums, including drawing, print, textiles, wall hangings. She adopted
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Her mature work saw the development of pencil crayon colour fields and collage techniques, the latter prompted by the onset of
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following the family's move to Baker Lake and between 1970 and 1988 she contributed to the Baker Lake print collections.
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In 1967, Kigusiuq began to draw to supplement her family's income after encouragement from her mother.
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Kigusiuq's family were relocated to Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake) She was married at the age of 11.
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Gillmor, Alison (Fall 1996). "Janet Kigusiuq: Recent Drawings at the Winnipeg Art Gallery".
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Her work can be found in a number of museum and gallery permanent collections such as:
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North American women artists of the twentieth century : a biographical dictionary
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Kigusiuq came from a large family of artists: she was the eldest daughter of
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Breaking Ground: Freda Diesing, Helen Kalvak, Janet Kigusiuq, Rita Letendre.
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New Lines: Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada.
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The Urge to Abstraction: The Graphic Art of Janet Kigusiuq
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The Urge to Abstraction: The Graphic Art of Janet Kigusiuq
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Lewis, Katie (Fall 2005). "Janet Kigusiuq (1926–2005)".
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In 1984, Kigusiuq delivered a copy of her mother's work
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Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection
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Fisher, Kyra Vladykov (Fall 2007). "Janet Kigusiuq".
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Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection
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Putuqsuqniq
Nunavut
Baker Lake, Nunavut
Printmaking
Drawing
Garry Lake
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Baker Lake, Nunavut
Inuk
Jessie Oonark
Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
Nancy Pukingrnak
Peggy Qablunaaq Aittauq
Mary Yuusipik Singaqti
Josiah Nuilaalik
Miriam Marealik Qiyuk
William Noah
Mark Uqayuittuq
Luke Anguhadluq
Back River
printmaking
Pope John Paul II
Ottawa
arthritis
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Museum of Inuit Art
Art Gallery of Alberta
Art Gallery of Ontario

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