November 8, 2011

Hailing from Arviat, the most southern community on Nunavut’s mainland, Lucy Tasseor uses stone local to her home. Arviat is close to the geographical centre of Canada where the local stone is a tough grey steatite which is harder than steel tools typically used by Arviat carvers. Tasseor created a unique sculpture style by using an axe to chip at this hard stone, allowing the artist to “communicate essential ideas of form and content with a minimum of elaboration.”

The Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok exhibit takes place at the Art Gallery of Ontario and features more than 40 works by Tasseor from the 1960s through to the 1990s. For more information, go to www.ago.net.