Gorgeous new print from the 2023 Dorset Print Collection: Loon Passage by Ooloosie Saila
“Ooloosie Saila is an emerging artist working out of Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU. She began to draw at a young age, and officially joined the Kinngait co-op in 2015. Saila is the granddaughter of talented sculptor and graphic artist Patua Saila (1916-2009), and she was also inspired by renowned Kinngait graphic artist Kenojuak Ashevak, CC, ON, RCA (1927-2013)
Saila’s large scale drawings show a world of small nuanced details, from pencil strokes depicting the movement of water, to patterns that flatten the picture plane yet create a distinct impression of texture. In Ornamental Owl (2017),
Saila’s bird sparks with a vibrant energy. Her all-encompassing pattern-making, with squiggles, stripes and dots, is distinctly her own. The vibrant stripes of the owl’s plumage are a visual marker of the artist’s emerging style.
Saila is gaining more recognition as she continues her artistic practice and has had one of her works translated into a print for the Dorset Fine Arts Annual Print collection in 2017, titled Owl (2017). Her artwork has been featured in exhibitions within Canada and internationally, and is also included in the collections at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal in Montreal, QC and Capital One in Toronto, ON. Saila was additionally featured in the Summer 2018 issue of the Inuit Art Quarterly.” (excerpt IAQ Profiles)
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Dimensions
23.4 × 28.3 in
Biography Ooloosie Saila
OOLOOSIE SAILA
Date of Birth: August 31, 1991
Place of Birth: Iqaluit, NU
Mother: Mary Saila
Father:
Adopted by: Sita Saila
Mikisiti Saila
Female
As a child, Ooloosie was inspired to draw through occasional visits to the home of Kenojuak Ashevak. From these visits Ooloosie gained some valuable insights into the process of drawing and the importance of discipline and perseverance. At age 14 she won first prize at her high school drawing contest and a few years later she began selling her drawings to the Co-op.
Ooloosie has explored many diverse themes over the years but recently her work has been focused on the northern landscape around her home in Cape Dorset. Her bold and often large drawings are characterized by patches of colour and suggestive lines that aptly express the changing landscape throughout the seasons.
Ooloosie is quickly becoming one of Cape Dorset’s most promising emerging artists and her work has been shown at numerous galleries in North America as well as Art Toronto and the Art on Paper fair in New York.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
March, 2019
Ooloosie Saila
Horizons
Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
EXHIBITIONS:
July – August, 2018
Welcome to the World:
A Collection of Drawings by Emerging Artists In Cape Dorset
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
June – July, 2015
Ulumi
Ki Smith Gallery New York City, NY
July – August, 2019
TAVVAUNA Here it is: Drawings from Cape Dorset Studio 22
Kingston. Ontario
September – October, 2019
Contemporary Drawings from Cape Dorset Inuit Fine Art
Port Hope, Ontario
COLLECTIONS:
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal Capital One Collection, Toronto Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
