IOLA ABRAHAM IKKIDLUAK (ISAAC; ABRAHAM; ESEECHIA; ISSAC) Born: December 20, 1936 Male E7-923
Place of Birth: Markham Bay
Resides: Kimmirut; also lived in Peetokerk Camp
Sculpture
Iola's wife Namonai is an artist. Their late son, Tutuyea was also
a very talented carver.
He currently lives in Lake Harbour where he carves full time and spends
his other hours hunting. He is an inveterate traveller and often works as a
guide for fish and wildlife officers of the Government of the Northwest
Territories. As a sculptor, Iola has a wide range of subject matter from
small, nicely detailed birds and animals to large, museum quality pieces. He
is particularly known for large, very detailed carvings of walrus. He speaks
no english and is extremely traditional in his outlook.
Arts Induvik 1985
EXHIBITIONS: October - Nov 1974 Eskimo Art
Queens Museum
Flushing, New York, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
1977 Sculpture from Lake Harbour
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
March - June 1978 The Coming and Going of the Shaman:
Eskimo Shamanism and Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
1979 - 1981 By the Light of the Qulliq: Eskimo Life in the
Canadian Arctic
Smithsonian Institution, A travelling exhibition
of Inuit art from the Feheley Collection
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
November - Dec 1980 Sculpture from Baffin Island
Pitakvik Inuit Galleries
Calgary, Alberta
July - September 1983 Baffin Island
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
February - March 1984 Canadian Inuit Art
City Hall
Nuuk/Godthab, Greenland
June 1986 New Beginnings: a celebration of Native
expression at the first Native Business
Summit
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Toronto, Ontario
September - Nov 1987 The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1988 [L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Les Martres-de-Veyre
France
November 1990 Inuit Masterworks
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
May - August 1992 Hudson's Bay Company Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
Oct 1992 - Mar 1993 Inuit Ivories from the Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
1993 - 1993 Arts from the Arctic
Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Anchorage, Alaska
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1994 Sculpture of the Inuit:
Major Works by the Masters of Stone
Maslak McLeod Canadian Art
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
March - July 1995 Opening Show
Geronimo's Studio
Munich, Germany
COLLECTIONS: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1987 Participated in a carving workshop in Iqaluit, experimenting with new stone
types and hard stone carving techniques.
1988 A carving by Ikkidluak was featured on the cover of the Fall issue of the
Inuit Art Quarterly.
SELECTED REFERENCES: Adamson, Arthur
THE SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Inuit Art Quarterly,
vol.3, no.1, Winter, 1988. pp.19-20.
Blodgett, Jean
THE COMING AND GOING OF THE SHAMAN: Eskimo Shamanism and Art.
Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979.
Ingram, Jan
ARTS FROM THE ARCTIC; A CELEBRATORY EXHIBITION: At the
Anchorage Museum of History and Art until September 19, 1993.
Inuit Art Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall, 1993.
Institute of Alaska Native Arts
ARTS FROM THE ARCTIC: An Exhibition of Circumpolar Art by
Indigenous Artists from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Sapmi
(Lapland), Russia. Presented by Institute of Alaska Native Arts
and Anchorage Museum of History and Art, copyright Institute of
Alaska Native Arts, 1993.
Jordon, Wendy Adler
BY THE LIGHT OF THE QULLIQ: Eskimo Life in the Canadian
Arctic. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service, 1979.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
BAFFIN ISLAND. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.
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