Description
Elegance! This Swan by Tony Curly is the quintessential Tony Curly Swan: white marble, long neck, minimal decoration, soothing, calm.
Tony Curley is a sculptor/carver based in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU. He has noted that he has “a natural instinct in my soul” for creating his artwork. Curley has been creating carvings for more than 30 years.
Curley is inspired by Arctic wildlife that live in and around his northern community, and primarily creates carvings of animals such as bears and birds. His sculptures of birds, particularly geese or swans, appear delicate and graceful with elongated necks and smooth feather details. Curley often carves with marble or serpentine; a firm, green, brown or black metamorphic rock from the lower region of Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island) …
Curley’s artwork was exhibited widely between 1979 and 2012 within art galleries in Canada, such as Feheley Fine Arts in Toronto, ON, the Inuit Gallery of Vancouver in Vancouver, BC, and the Collector’s Gallery of Art in Calgary, AB. His sculptures have also been included in other exhibitions internationally, such as Arctic Forms – Inuit Sculpture (1988) at the Arctic Inuit Gallery in Richmond, VA, United States, Baffin Island Sculpture (2001) at the Albers Gallery of Inuit Art in San Francisco, CA, United States, Inuit Sculpture (1988) at the Gallery Marie-Louise Wirth in Zurich, Switzerland and the Die Kunst aus der Arktis (1979) at the Inuit-Galerie (Mannheim) held at the Rathaus Foyer in Mainz, Germany.
(Inut Art Quarterly)
This Swan by Tony Curly is a small treasure.
Biography Tony Curly
TONY CURLEY
Date of Birth: April 1, 1964 Male/Female: Male
Place of Birth: Cape Dorset
Mother:
Father: Kellypalik Curley
Tony is the son of Cape Dorset artist, Kellypalik Curley.
EXHIBITIONS:
March – April 1979
Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Inuit Galerie, Mannheim
Held at the Rathaus Foyer
Mainz, Germany
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1988
Arctic Forms – Inuit Sculpture
Arctic Inuit Gallery
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
May 1989
Birds: Sculpture from Cape Dorset
& Rock Ptarmigan Limited Edition
Print by Kananginak
The Guild Shop
Toronto, Ontario
February 1991
Animals of the Arctic
Arctic Inuit Gallery
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
February 1993
Inuit Sculpture
Gallery Marie-Louise Wirth
Zurich, Switzerland
February 1993
Kunstwerke der Inuit
Presented by CreARTion, Eppstein
in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of Canadian Studies at the Hotel am Badersee
Grainau, Germany
December 1995 – January 1996
Inuit Art: from the Collection of Maurice Yacowar
Collector’s Gallery
Calgary, Alberta
November 1996
Small Sculpture by Great Artists V
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
February – April 1997
Stone & Bone
The Inuit Master Carvers of the Canadian Arctic
The North West Company
Held at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities
Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.A.
June – July 2000
Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Exhibition title: Art in Stone
Canadian Arctic Gallery (Grunder)
Hammerstrasse 50, Basel, Switzerland
(illustrated catalogue)
May – June 2001
Baffin Island Sculpture
The Albers Gallery of Inuit Art
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
January – February, 2009
Small Treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
May – June, 2011
Birds
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
January, 2012
Small Treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
August 2020
Kinngait (Cape Dorset) Sculptures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
