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This elegant catalogue accompanied Annie Pootoogook's first solo exhibition at The Power Plant, curated by Nancy Campbell, 2006. This was Pootoogook's debut exhibition in a public institution. Pootoogook went on to win the 2006 Sobey Prize and was highlighted at documenta 12, Kassel, Germany, 2007. This full-colour, 32-page catalogue provides detailed images of her drawings–printed with such detail that the strokes of the pencil crayon are visible. Campbell's essay links the artists of West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, founded in the 1950s, with today's artistic production in Cape Dorset. Pootoogook's history is mapped out—how she began drawing, and what she decided to depict in her pencil crayon and ink images—creating compositions of domestic and camp interiors culled from her memory. The images combine the violent, mythical, safe and yet harsh reality of culture and life in Canada's Arctic. |
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