February 27, 2008 | 4:00 PM
Artist Talk
Illingworth Kerr Gallery | ACAD
IKG Gallery Prep-workshop area (through loading dock) | Coffee and cake will be served
It is with great honour that the IKG presents a panel discussion for Wednesday, February 27 at 4pm including Shuvinai Ashoona and John Noestheden along with Pat Feheley of Feheley Fine Art, Toronto and independent curator Nancy Campbell.
Cape-Dorset, Nunavut-based artist Shuvinai Ashoona and Regina (Canada)-based artist John Noestheden will become the first Inuit and non-Inuit contemporary artists to collaborate on an art project. The collaborative work will be conceived in the prep studio of the IKG and unveiled as part of Stadthimmel, in Basel, shown alongside works by international artists including Daniel Buren and Peter Kogler among others.
Shuvinai Ashoona was born in Cape Dorset in 1961 and began to draw in 1995. While never formally trained in graphic arts, the daughter of artists Kiawak and Sorosilooto has been surrounded by art and artists all her life. Her grandmother is the renowned artist Pitseolak Ashoona and her aunt is Napachie Pootoogook.
John Noestheden received his BFA in 1973 from the University of Windsor and his MFA in 1975 from Tulane University in New Orleans. Noestheden has had numerous solo exhibitions including Neutral Ground Art Gallery, Regina; Kelowna Art Gallery; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina; Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary; and group exhibitions including ONO Regina; Kathleen Cullen fine Arts, New York; Aka Gallery, Saskatoon; and Heuser Art Centre, Peoria. Noestheden is currently teaching sculpture and drawing at the University of Regina.
The IKG would like to thank Klaus Littman, Stadthimmel, Basel; Feheley Fine Art, Toronto; Nancy Campbell, the Alberta College of ART + Design and the ACAD Visiting Artist Committee.
