Saturday, October 25, 2003

 Please click on image above to view the entire collection.

To view the collection, please click on the image to the left.   It is with great anticipation that we share with you a collection of dynamic and inventive sculpture of brothers Napachie and Toonoo Sharky. Both Toonoo and Napachie are comparatively young artists, born in 1970 and 1971 respectively. They have incorporated the best of the traditional world, which was a major factor of the initial appeal of Inuit sculpture, with modern sensibilities and a wholehearted embrace of the technical abilities that modern sculpting techniques have put at their disposal. Their command of both the creative impulse and the expertise of working in the luscious varieties of the local serpentine stone are revealed with each sculpture. Another much anticipated occurence in the Arctic is the arrival of spring and summer and there exists in all of these works an exuberance of spirit that frequently raises a sense of a fine summer day. Most of the works imply some aspect of spring and summer by the very nature of their subject matter, the profusion of birds that is an intrinsic aspect of the Arctic summer, the fishing to be done in the freshly flowing streams and the playing outside at long last.

Please here to view the entire collection.