Medium: Stencil - (about the technique)
The artwork is signed, titled and numbered - additionally stamped with the 'igloo'. This stamp is the symbol of the Kinngait studio where the artwork was made, with the print studio dry stamp. Printed by the artist on Kizuki Kozo White paper.
Created in 2014
Artwork size:  24.4" x 19.5" (62 x 49.5cm)
Edition: 50
Certificate of Authenticity is included.

About the artist: ᑲᕙᕙᐅ ᒪᓄᒥ
Qavavau Manumie (1958)

I like to draw animals, and images of people, sometimes combined. I enjoy the animals and the land, and I take what I see there to my drawings.

- Qavavau Manumie

© William Ritchie

Qavavau was born in Brandon, Manitoba in 1958 where his mother, Paunichea, was hospitalized for treatment of tuberculosis. He returned to Cape Dorset as a very young child and has lived there since. Qavavau has demonstrated a range of stylistic abilities over the years - from the very literal to the more expressive. His work is idiosyncratic and often amusing in his depictions of Inuit legends and mythology, Arctic wildlife and contemporary aspects of Inuit life Qavavau is the latest among the second generation to attract critical acclaim from the contemporary arts audience in the south.

He and Shuvinai Ashoona have been profiled, along with Nick Sikkuark of Gjoa Haven, in the Winnipeg- based arts magazine, Border Crossings. He traveled to Toronto in June of 2008 for his first solo exhibition of original drawings, and in 2009 to Vancouver for another exhibition featuring his contemporary work. He was invited to attend an opening of his work in Victoria in the fall of 2012.

For several years Qavavau has worked for the Kinngait Studios as a printmaker - first in the lithography studio and more recently in the stonecut studio. He is an accomplished and precise printmaker who enjoys the opportunity to demonstrate printmaking techniques to young artists and visitors to the studio.
Qavavau lives with his wife and son, Peter, in Cape Dorset.

COLLECTIONS:
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection 1959 – 1999, Cape Dorset, NU
Government of Nunavut
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, NWT
Doris McCarthy Gallery (University of Toronto Scarborough), ON

SELECTED REFERENCES:
Eric Clement: TROIS EXPRESSIONS POUR UNE MEME CAUSE, La Presse, February 21, 2010
Dykk, Lloyd: KAVAVAOW MANNOMEE, www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2009/09/01/kavavaow-mannomee
Kardosh, Robert: THE NEW GENERATION; A RADICAL DEFIANCE. Inuit Art Quarterly, Winter 2008.
Karlinsky, Amy: THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SONS AND DAUGHTERS: CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS. Boarder Crossings, Issue no. 105
Muscarelle Museum of Art (Willamsburg) - CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS: The gift collection of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman. Williamsburg,Va.: The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
Nasby, Judith: REVEALING THE TRUTH OF THE ARTIST’S HAND: Contemporary Inuit Drawings. Inuit Art; Quarterly: 9 (3), Fall 1994, pp. 4-13.
Ryan, Leslie Boyd: CAPE DORSET PRINTS: A Retrospective, Pomegranate, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.,2007
Ryan, Leslie Boyd: QAVAVAU MUNAMIE drawings; HB Dessin/Drawing/Dibujo No 5 Structure; April, 201