Curator Nancy Campbell gives us an introduction to Shuvinai Ashoona’s life and work, and takes some time to look closely at a few of our favourite drawings in the Mapping Worlds exhibition.

Artist Shuvinai Ashoona lives in Kinngait on the southern tip of Baffin Island, and her drawings imagine the past and present fused into a prophetic future, populated by human-animal hybrid creatures, women birthing worlds, and mystical or other-worldly landscapes clearly inspired by the terrain of her northern home.

Learn more about the Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds exhibition here

The Kinngait Arts Foundation was founded in 2001 as a not for profit organization responsible for communications, promotion, advocacy, government relations and special projects as related to the Inuit art of Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut. The organization is governed by a board of directors which comprises representatives from Kinngait and southern Canada.

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