RUTH ANNAQTUUSI TULURIALIK (ANNAQTUSII; ANNUKTOSHE; ANNAQTUSSI; ANNAQTUUSI; ANAKTOSE; TULURIALIK) Born: September 13, 1934 Female E2-16 Resides: Baker Lake Drawings, Prints, Wallhangings Ruth was born near the Kazan River and came to Baker Lake as a baby with
her adoptive parents, Elizabeth and Thomas Tapatai. She is married to Hugh
Tulurialik, who operates an outfitting business in Baker Lake. They have
three children. Both Ruth and Hugh are singers and musicians and together
they travel extensively in the north to perform at various communities.
Ruth began drawing in the mid-60s under the guidance of Jessie Oonark.
Her drawings usually depict everyday life scenes on the land and subjects
taken from her vast knowledge of traditional stories and legends.
Baker Lake print catalogue 1987
"A Canadian Inuit artist best known for her exuberant drawings,
bright-colored wool duffel wall-hangings, and energetic stoneblock prints
produced through the Sanavik Co-operative at Baker Lake, Northwest
Territories, Ruth Annaqtuusi Tulurialik did not turn to art until she was in
her mid-thirties. Tulurialik was born in a traditional Inuit camp along the
Kazan River in the Keewatin district of Arctic Canada before the establishment
of permanent communities in the Canadian North. As an infant she was adopted
by her aunt and uncle, Elisapee Unuqnuq and Thomas Tapatai, and was raised in
the area that was to become the community of Baker Lake during the 1950s.
Having worked a number of years as an interpreter for the nursing station,
child care worker, and cook, Tulurialik became very interested in the arts and
crafts projects that were introduced in her community during the 1960s under
the auspices of the Canadian federal government. She first tried her hand at
wool duffel wall-hangings but has become better known for her strongly
gestural drawings and for the stonecut and stencil prints based on her
drawings.
Tulurialik draws inspiration for her art from the traditional ways of her
Inuit culture, filling her compositions with extremely imaginative depictions
of Arctic animals, Inuit in traditional dress, women with facial tatoos,
shamans and spirits, fantastic birds and fish, and transformational images.
Her drawings--usually in colored pencil--are highly-complex in organization
and frequently fill the entire page with color. She characteristically
overlays one hue over another to create complex and textured skeins of color
and often extends the background nearly to the edge of the page, creating a
narrow border which she leaves blank to frame her drawings. The figures in
Tulurialik's drawings are firmly outlined and filled with color, and she makes
occasional use of 'voice balloons' to indicate sounds or works expressed by
the highly active humans, animals, and spirits that occupy the vibrant world
she creates."
Marion E. Jackson
In "North American Women Artists
of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical
Dictionary" 1995.
Ruth is the sister of graphic artist and carver Nancy Kangeryuaq, and printer,
carver andd crafts artist Winnie Owingayak.
EXHIBITIONS: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, Baker Lake Print Collection
1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - March 1972 Eskimo Fantastic Art
Gallery 111, School of Art,
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May - September 1972 Baker Lake Drawings
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1973 - 1974 Baker Lake Prints and Drawings:
1970-1973
Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Extension Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(catalogue)
January - February 1973 Baker Lake Eskimo Drawings - Six Artists
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
December 1973 Drawings by Anguhadluk, Annaqtussi,
Kigusiuq, Kukiiyaut of Baker Lake, N.W.T.
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
June - September 1974 Ulu/Inua: Form and Fantasy in Eskimo
Art
Casino Gallery, Ravinia Park
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
(catalogue)
1975 - 1979 We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions
des Animaux
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development in
cooperation with the Department
of External Affairs
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1976 - 1982 Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical
Symbolism in Eskimo Art
Canadian Arctic Producers and the
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June - August 1976 The People Within - Art from
Baker Lake
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1976 Baker Lake Festival: Sculpture, Drawings,
and Wallhangings
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
March - June 1978 The Coming and Going of the Shaman:
Eskimo Shamanism and Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
August - November 1978 The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
November - December 1978 Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1979 - May 1980 Inuit Art in the 1970s
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development, and the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
August - November 1979 Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
March - April 1980 A Culture on Paper: Baker Lake Drawings
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
August - October 1980 The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood
To Be Full
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
September - October 1980 La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea
Goddess
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1980 Baker Lake Prints - Ten Year Retrospective
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
January - February 1982 Baker Lake Drawings
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
March 1982 - January 1983 Inuit Myths, Legends and Songs
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
February - April 1983 Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings:
1970-1976
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
October - December 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
the Collection of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
November 1983 - March 1985 Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development, Ottawa, presented at the
General Assembly Building, United Nations
New York, New York, U.S.A.
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
September 1984 Drawings from Baker Lake
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
March - May 1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1985 Baker Lake Prints 1985
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
June 1985 - September 1987 Chisel and Brush/Le ciseau et la brosse
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1986 Qikaaluktut: Images of Inuit Life
Drawings by Ruth Annaqtuusi of Baker Lake
Houston North Gallery
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1986 Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare
Prints from the Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
February - June 1987 The Lindsay and Swartz Collections:
New Acquisitions
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
May - June 1987 Inuit Graphics from the Past
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
September - November 1987 The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
October - November 1987 1987 Eskimo Art
Franz Bader Gallery
Washington, DC, U.S.A.
November 1987 Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
December 1987 - March 1989 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1988 Works on Paper from the Permanent
Collection of Inuit Art
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
June - September 1988 Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art
from the Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
October 1988 Baker Lake: Persistence of Old Memories
Brandon Allied Arts Council
Brandon, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
November - December 1988 Art of the Eskimo: Contemporary Sculpture &
Drawings from the Canadian Arctic
Gallery 100 Hudson
New York, New York, U.S.A.
January 1989 Cold Stones, Warm Hearts: Inuit Art
from the Northwest Territories
University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
October 1989 Baker Lake Print Retrospective:
A Twenty Year Anniversary
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
October - November 1989 Art/Facts
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
June - September 1990 Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
October - November 1990 A Woman's Vision
Art Space Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
December 1990 - January 1991 A Family Tradition: Inuit Art
from Canada's Arctic
Presented by Arctic Inuit Art at the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
January 1991 Sojourns to Nunavut: Contemporary Inuit Art
from Canada
at Bunkamura Art Gallery, presented by the
University of British Columbia Museum of
Anthropology and The McMichael Canadian Art
Collection
Tokyo, Japan
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
February - March 1991 Cape Dorset Sculpture
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
June - November 1991 Qamanittuaq: The Art of Baker Lake
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
November 1993 - January 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
August 1994 - April 1997 Qamanittuaq: Where the River Widens
Drawings by Baker Lake Artists
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1995 Baker Lake - Uncatalogued Prints 1979-1985
A retrospective collection exhibited at
selected galleries, organized by
Canadian Arctic Producers
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit
Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Verona, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
February 1996 The Spirit World - 1977 to 1990: Baker Lake
Clyde River and Pangnirtung Prints.
A retrospective collection exhibited at
selected commercial galleries, organized by
Canadian Arctic Producers
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1996 Works on Paper from the Permanent
Collection of Inuit Art
Canadian Guild of Craft Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: February 1986 - August 1987 The Vital Vision: Drawings by
Ruth Annaqtussi Tulurialik
Art Gallery of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1987 Drawings and Selected Prints, Ruth Annaqtuusi
Tulurialik, Baker Lake
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
COLLECTIONS: Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1984 Received an Explorations grant from the Canada Council to collaborate
with writer David Pelly of Castleton, Ontario on an illustrated collection
of Baker Lake stories in both English and Inuktitut.
SELECTED REFERENCES:
EIGHT ARTISTS FROM BAKER LAKE EXHIBIT AT ART GALLERY. City
Dweller, Ward-7 Edition (Toronto), July 1976.
TALEROOK'S STORY. Inuktitut, Spring, 1984. pp.48-52.
Art Gallery of Ontario
THE PEOPLE WITHIN = LES GENS DE L'INTERIEUR. Toronto: Art
Gallery of Ontario, 1976.
Blundell, Valda
QIKAALUKTUT: IMAGES OF INUIT LIFE. Toronto, Ont. : Inuit Art
Quarterly 1(1):12-13, 1986.
Brandon Allied Arts Council
BAKER LAKE: Persistence of Old Memories. Brandon: Brandon
Allied Arts Council, 1988.
Driscoll, Bernadette
INUIT MYTHS, LEGENDS AND SONGS. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art
Gallery, 1982.
Driscoll, Bernadette
UUMAJUT: Animal Imagery in Inuit art. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art
Gallery, 1985.
Evaluarjuk, Deborah
QIKAALUKTUT: IMAGES OF INUIT LIFE. Inuktitut, no.64, Fall 1986.
pp.54-55.
Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
DRAWINGS FROM BAKER LAKE. Toronto: The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo
Art, 1984.
Jackson, Marion E.
CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS. Guelph, Ontario: Macdonald Stewart
Art Centre, 1987.
Lawrence, Margaret
THE VITAL VISION: DRAWINGS BY RUTH ANNAQTUUSSI TULURIALIK.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 2, 1986. p.10.
Muscarelle Museum of Art (Williamsburg)
CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS: The gift collection of Frederick
and Lucy S. Herman. Williamsburg, Va.: The College of William
and Mary in Virginia, 1993.
Parkin, Jeanne
THE PEOPLE WITHIN: ART FROM BAKER LAKE = LES GENS DE
L'INTERIEUR: L'ART DE BAKER LAKE. Artmagazine, vol. 7, no. 28,
Summer/ete, 1976. pp.66-75.
Tulurialik, Ruth Annaqtuusi
QIKAALUKTUT: Images of Inuit Life. Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 1986.
Tulurialik, Ruth Annaqtuusi
THE VITAL VISION: Drawings by Ruth Annaqtuusi Tulurialik.
Windsor, Ontario: Art Gallery of Windsor, 1986.
Verona. Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
IMMAGINARIO INUIT: ARTE E CULTURA DEGLI ESQUIMESICANADESI.
Commune di Verona: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di
Palazzo Forti, 1995.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
BAKER LAKE DRAWINGS. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1972.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
BAKER LAKE PRINTS & PRINT-DRAWINGS 1970-76. Winnipeg: The
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.
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