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New print from the 2024 Dorset Print Collection: Resting Carver by Cee Pootoogook.
Cee Pootoogook was born on August 1, 1967. Around 1990, Cee began carving and he developed a solid reputation for his curious and well executed depictions of spirits and transformations.
In 2009 Cee gave up sculpture and began work as a stoecut printer. In a very short time Cee demonstrated an aptitude for the precise and methodical qualities required for the time consuming work
of editioning prints. He has also been drawing for the past several years, depicting the day to day activities of community life as well as traditional subjects and wildlife.
Cee is the eldest son of the late Napachie Pootoogook and Eegyvadluk Pootoogook, and older brother to the well known Cape Dorset contemporary artist, Annie Pootoogook.
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Biography Cee Pootoogook
CEE POOTOOGOOK (CEE; ASHOONA)
Date of Birth: August 1, 1967
Place of Birth: Cape Dorset
Mother: Napachie Pootoogook
Father: Egeevudluk Pootoogook
Male/Female: Male
See began carving when he was in his early twenties around 1990. His favourite subjects to carve are animal spirits and spirit transformations. *
He is the son of Cape Dorset artists Egeevudluk and Napachie Pootoogook. His maternal grandmother, the late Pitseolak Ashoona, was a renowned graphic artist at Cape Dorset.
* Courtesy – Feheley Fine Arts
EXHIBITIONS:
September 1994
Burdick Gallery Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
November – December 1995
Miniaturen
Inuit Galerie Mannheim, Germany
(brochure)
August – September 2001
Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts Houston North Gallery
Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada
November
Small Sculptures by Great Artists (Nov. 2001) Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
