NICOTYE SAMAYUALIE, "Signs of Spring"

Medium: Etching & Aquatint - (about the technique)
The artwork is signed, titled and numbered. Added is "Kinngait 2023" - representing the studio and the year it was made. The printmaker blind stamp is in the lower left. 
Created in 2023
Artwork size:  19" x 37.1" (48.5 x 94.3 cm)
Edition: 50
Certificate of Authenticity is included.

About the artist: ᓂᑯᑦᑕᐃ ᓵᒻᒪᔫᐊᓕ
Nicotye Samayualie, 1983

Buttons attract me because they are made of different colours and shapes. I like colourful buttons.

- Nicotye Samayualie

© William Ritchie

Nicotye Samayualie was born on November 25, 1983. She is the daughter of Kudluajuk Ashoona and Johnny Tunnillie Samayualie. Nicotye’s grandmother, Keeleemeeoomee Samayualie was a well known graphic artist whose prints were represented in the Cape Dorset annual print collections throughout the 1970’s and 80’s.

Nicotye is fascinated by patterns and arrangements of disparate objects in nature and man-made materials. Many of her drawings depict everyday items such as the contents of a pantry shelf, a table of shiny fishing lures or boxes of camping supplies.

Nicotye has had her original drawings shown at the Toronto Art Fair and in 2013 her work was featured in an Italian publication, ‘Annie e le Altre’, an ambitious scholastic study that explored the role of women artists in Cape Dorset.

REFERENCE
Tiberini, Elvira Stefania
Annie e le Altre: Artiste Contemporanee Di Cape Dorset. Rome: CISU, 2013
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND EVENTS:
2007 - 2008 Calendar Competition winner - Nunavut Mining Symposium