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Biography ... Tony Anguhalluq was born in 1970 in Churchill, Manitoba, but has always lived in the Nunavut community of Baker Lake. He was adopted and raised by Luke Anguhadluq and his wife Marion Tuu'luq, both prominent artists of the first generation (Tony's last name is an adaptation of his adoptive father's). In the mid-1990s, Anguhalluq was invited to participate in a local printmaking workshop where he discovered his own talent for two-dimensional image making. Now in his early forties, he is fluent in both English and his native Inuktitut. ... Although he has been making art for only a decade and a half, Anguhalluq has already developed a distinctive style. In contrast to the relatively detailed approaches of such artists as Shuvinai Ashoona and Nick Sikkuark, Anguhalluq chooses to reduce the forms of the landscape to near abstraction, frequently employing aerial and side views in the same image. Because Anguhalluq combines a non-representational technique (his landscapes are often conceived as interlocking patterns of heavily outlined, solidly coloured silhouettes) with such compositional conventions as the use of horizon lines, many of his images feature an expressive tension between the flat picture and an illusive pictorial depth. ... Although the Arctic landscape is generally his primary subject, many of Anguhalluq's images also feature a human and/or animal presence. The narrative dimension of these images is revealed through the descriptive titles that Anguhalluq gives to each drawing.  |
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