Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok (1934 in Nunalla,

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– 2012 in

Arviat Arviat (, syllabics: ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ; formerly called Eskimo Point until 1 June 1989) is a predominantly Inuit hamlet located on the western shore of Hudson Bay in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada. Arviat ("place of the bowhead whale") is ...

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) was an Inuit artist. Known for her sculptures, Tasseor Tutsweetok worked principally with grey

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, a hard stone local to Arviat on the Nunavut mainland, where the artist moved following the closing of the North Rankin Nickel Mine in 1962.McMaster, Gerald, ed. ''Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection''. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2010. 244. Always remaining close to the stone's original form and leaving its surface unpolished, her sculptures take maternal and family groupings as their principle themes. Notable exhibitions include: ''Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic'' (1971–73), ''In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art in Canada'' (1989–91), and ''Indigena: Contemporary Native Perspectives in Canadian Art'' (1992), and a solo exhibition, her first, at the

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(2011). In 1992, she completed a large sculpture for the

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. Tasseor Tutsweetok's minimalist and semi-abstract approach to carving is accompanied by calculated drawings upon the stone's surface, she shares this approach with her contemporaries Andy Miki, John Panaruk, and Elizabeth Nutaluk.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tasseor Tutsweetok, Lucy 1934 births 2012 deaths Artists from Manitoba Inuit sculptors People from Arviat Stonemasons 20th-century Canadian women artists 20th-century Canadian sculptors Canadian women sculptors Canadian Inuit women Inuit from Nunavut