ETULU ETIDLUI (ETOOLOOK; ETIDLOI; ITULU; ETIDLOOIE) Born: June 15, 1946 Male E7-989 Resides: Cape Dorset Sculpture Etulu Etidlui was born on June 15, 1946. He comes from a family of well- artists from Cape Dorset, the most art productive community on Baffin Island, Nunavut. He is the son of the late graphic artists and carvers Etidloooie and Kingmata Etidlooie. Etulu's younger brother Kelly is also a very talented sculptor, known primarily for his carvings of narwhals. Omalluk Oshutsiak, their sister, excels in small scale carvings of people. There are several younger members of the family who are very gifted carvers, Mary and Pitseolak Oshutsiak, Isaac Etidlui (Etulu's son), and Toonoo Etidlui. Etulu is best known for his delicately carved loons, often in flight, then mounted on either stone or a piece of caribou antler, as well as for his refined carvings of resting wolves. Etulu's style is highly representative of Cape Dorset art. It is rooted in a love for naturalism, with an affinity for decorative stylisation. Etulu's carvings are made of finest serpenting of varying green shades with gold veining, smoothed and highly polished to best exhibit the beauty of the stone. Serpentine is a metamorphic rock found on Baffin Island. It is a very hard stone with composition similar to Jade. EXHIBITIONS: April 1976 Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition
Baffin Regional School
Iqaluit, Northwest Territories
March - April 1982 Songs in Stone
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
September - October 1984 On the Land
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
February 1993 Kunstwerke der Inuit
Presented by CreARTion, Eppstein
in conjunction with the annual meeting
of the Association of Canadian Studies
at the Hotel am Badersee
Grainau, Germany
COLLECTIONS: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
GE Canada Inuit Art Collection, Mississauga, Ontario
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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