A third-generation Inuit artist, Shuvinai Ashoona is internationally known for her large-scale drawings realized with pen, ink, colored pencils and oil sticks. Her meticulously detailed works evoke the traditional motifs of Inuit art, subverting stereotyped notions to incorporate them into a sophisticated, highly personal iconography. With images ranging from scenes of everyday life observed from her Arctic house to fantastic and alienating visions, Ashoona’s brightly colored drawings teem with life and blur the boundaries between fantasy and reality, between past and future. An eclectic personality to discover in Marica Connolly’s documentary film Ghost Noise (2010).
