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LUCY MEEKO (LUUSI; MIKU; TUKATUK) Born: November 29, 1929 Female E9-319
Resides: Kuujjuaraapik
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Crafts, Printmaking
"Lucy Meeko is a Canadian Inuit artist born on the land near
Kuujjuaraapik, Arctic Qu‚bec, Canada. Her husband Noah Meeko is also a
talented artist, and together they attended print workshops and were involved
with several of the annual Arctic Qu‚becois print collections. They still live
and work in the Kuujjuaraapik area.
Meeko was approaching middle age before a new creative outlet opened up
for her, and with it, recognition as an artist. After studying various print
techniques in Povungnituk she went on to be a prolific and important
contributor to the Arctic Qu‚bec print collections of the 1970s. Relying on
traditional themes for subject matter, Meeko's prints are often stylized
collages illustrating an almost spiritual relationship between Inuit and
animals of the North. Among Meeko's other talents are sewing and carving. Here
again she concentrates on the things she knows. Familiar images of mother and
child, or walrus on an ice flow are naturally and simply depicted in her
sculptures.
In 1989 Meeko was the guest of the McCord Museum of Canadian History in
Montr‚al, where she demonstrated caribou skin tailoring and sealskin
bootmaking. She is often called upon to conduct workshops in other
communities."
Mary Craig
In "North American Women Artists
in the Twentieth Century: A Biographical
Dictionary" 1995.
EXHIBITIONS: 1971 - 1973 Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Arctic Quebec Print Collection
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
1973, 1974 Arctic Quebec Print Collection II
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
1973 Arctic Quebec Print Collection II (printmaker)
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
1978 Women Sculptors of Great Whale River
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
Nov - Dec 1978 Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
(illustrated catalogue)
1979 Legends
Images Art Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
Nov - Dec 1979 In Celebration
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
Feb - Aug 1982 Les Inuit du Nouveau-Quebec
Musee du Quebec
Quebec, Quebec
(illustrated brochure)
1983 Povungnituk Print Collection
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1984 Heritage of the Inuit: Masterpieces
of the Eskimo
Colorado Galleries of the Arts,
Arapahoe Community College
Littleton, Colorado, U.S.A.
July 1984 Treasures from Canada's Arctic
Heritage Place
Uxbridge, Ontario
Sep - Oct 1984 On the Land
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
1986 Arnaq: Representation of the Woman in Inuit Art
La Maison de la Culture de
Notre-Dame-de-Grace
Montreal, Quebec
February 1992 The Inuit Print and Sculpture 1960-1980
Westdale Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
Nov - Dec 1993 Women Who Draw: 30 Years of Graphic
Art from the Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
COLLECTIONS: Avataq Cultural Institute, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Musee de la civilisation, Quebec City, Quebec
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1987 Meeko and her husband Noah won first prize in the "figurative expression"
category at the international snow sculpture competition in Rovaniemi,Finland.
1993 Lucy was featured in the video "Keeping Our Stories Alive-The Sculpture of
Canada's Inuit" produced by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
SELECTED REFERENCES: Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs
KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE: THE SCULPTURE OF CANADA'S INUIT.
Produced by the Inuit Art Section, Indian and Northern Affairs
Canada, 1993.
Mitchell, Marybelle
L'ART DE LA GRAVURE AU NOUVEAU-QUEBEC. North/Nord, vol. 21, no.
2, March-April, 1975. pp.17-21. [Incorrectly cited as vol. 22
on publication.].
Saucier, Celine
IMAGE INUIT DU NOUVEAU-QUEBEC: By Celine Saucier and Eugene
Kedl. Quebec: Musee de la Civilisation, 1988.
Simard, Cyril
ARTISANAT QUEBECOIS: 3: INDIENS ET ESQUIMAUX. Montreal: Les
Editions de l'Homme, 1977.
Yanagi, Amy T.
CONTEMPORARY INUIT SEWING. Threads Magazine, no. 27,
February-March, 1990. pp.62-63.
(c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995
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