August 8 - 29

Born and raised in Arctic Canada’s most active artistic community, Pudlalik Shaa grew up watching his father and mother, Axangayuk and Kilabuk Shaa, reveal the figures within the stone they worked. Pudlalik learned to carve in the traditional manner, using hand tools such as an axe, rasp and chisel, to create the birds and other animals iconic of the far north. The influence of his father’s fluid lines persists in Pudlalik’s work, as seen in his delightful high-stepping goose and his lounging walruses. In addition to his balanced and delicately wrought carvings of single animals, he is perhaps most well known for his dynamic drum dancers and beautiful compositions that intertwine animals from the land, sea and sky on a central pedestal foot. They speak to the deep interconnection of Arctic life where humans, animals and those spirits caught in between, move together in harmony.
Pudlalik's work is well loved by collectors around the world.