ISACI ETIDLOIE Born: November 15, 1972 Male
Resides: Cape Dorset
Sculpture
Isaac Etidloie was born on November 15, 1972. He comes from a family of well-known artists from cape Dorset, the most art productive community on Baffin Island, Nunavut. Isaac is the son of cape Dorset carver Etulu Etidlui known primarily, for his lovely loons mounted on either stone, or a piece of caribou antler, and the grandson of renowned graphic artists Etidlooie and Kingmeata Etidlooie. His uncle Kelly is also a talented sculptor, mostly known for his lively carvings of narwhals. Isaac is a very gifted young artist with a tremendous amount of potential. Like his father, Isaci likes to carve birds, but he is equally interested in portraying human figure and mythological imagery, and that is where his great technical control in depicting the movement and proportions is best represented. Isaac takes great care in choosing the stone. His carvings are made of finest serpentine of varying green shades with gold veining, smoothed and polished to best exhibit the beauty of the stone. Serpentine is a metamorphic rock found on Baffin Island. It is a yery hard stone with a composition similar to Jade.
EXHIBITIONS:
November - December 1991 Second Generation Cape Dorset Carvers
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
November - December 1991 The Hand: Images in Inuit Sculpture
The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
November - December 1993 Sculpture Inuit et
Retrospective Pudlo Pudlat
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
November - December 1993 The Treasured Monument
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
April - May 1994 Mythic Image
Ancestral Spirits Gallery
Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.A.
September - October 1994 Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo's
Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum
Huis Hellemans
Edegem, Belgium
(illustrated brochure)
November - December 1994 Small Sculpture by Great Artists:
The Younger Generation
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
September 1995 Sedna: Spirit of the Sea
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
September - October 1995 Two Eccentrics: Sculpture by Emily Illuitok of
Pelly Bay and Isaaci Etidlooie of Cape Dorset
The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
November - December 1995 Miniaturen
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
(brochure)
SELECTED REFERENCES: Marion Scott Gallery
THE TREASURED MONUMENT: An Exhibition of Small-scale Inuit
Sculpture. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1993.
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