Description
Gorgeous new print from the 2022 Dorset Print Collection: Magic Hour by Nicotye Samayualie
Buttons attract me because they are made of different colours and shapes. I like colourful buttons. -Nicotye Samayualie
Nicotye Samayualie was born on November 25, 1983. She is the daughter of Kudluajuk Ashoona and Johnny Tunnillie Samayualie. Nicotye’s grandmother, Keeleemeeoomee Samayualie was a well known graphic artist whose prints were represented in the Cape Dorset annual print collections throughout the 1970’s and 80’s.
Nicotye is fascinated by patterns and arrangements of disparate objects in nature and man-made materials. Many of her drawings depict everyday items such as the contents of a pantry shelf, a table of shiny fishing lures or boxes of camping supplies.
Nicotye has had her original drawings shown at the Toronto Art Fair and in 2013 her work was featured in an Italian publication, ‘Annie e le Altre’, an ambitious scholastic study that explored the role of women artists in Cape Dorset.
bio Nicotye Samayualie
Date of Birth: November 25th, 1983
Place of Birth: Cape Dorset
Mother: Kudlurjuk Ashoona
Father: Jonny Tunnillie Samayualie
Male/Female: Female
Nicotye Samayualie was born on November 23rd, 1983. She is the daughter of Kudluarjuk Ashoona and Johny Tunnillie Samayualie. Nicotye’s grandmother, Keeleemeeoomee Samayualie was a well know graphic artist whose prints were represented in the Cape Dorset annual print collections throughout the 1970s and 80s.
Nicotye is fascinated by patterns and arrangements of disparate objects in nature and man-made materials. Many of her drawings depict everyday items such as the contents of a pantry shelf, a table of shiny fishing lures or boxes of camping supplies.
Nicotye has had her original drawings shown at the Toronto Art Fair and in 2013 her work was featured in an Italian publication, ‘Annie e le Altre’, an ambitious scholastic study that explored the role of women artists in Cape Dorset.
EXHIBITIONS
October, 2011
Toronto Art Fair
Feheley Fine Arts Booth Toronto, Ontario
January – March 2012!
Views from the North: Original Drawings from Cape Dorset
Alaska on Madison
New York, New York
May- June 2012
The Unexpected Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
2013
Cape Dorset Graphics (annual collection) (illustrated catalouge)
2013
Toronto Art Fair Toronto, Ontario
August -September 2013
Eight Women
Marion Scott Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia
October – November 2013
The Hand of the Artist Fehely Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
October 2013
Toronto International Art Fair Metro Toronto Convention Centre Toronto, Ontario
REFERENCE
Tiberini, Elvira Stefania
Annie e le Altre: Artiste Contemporanee Di Cape Dorset. Rome: CISU, 2013
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND EVENTS:
2007 – 2008 Calendar Competition winner – Nunavut Mining Symposium