Eldred Allen
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Eldred Allen, originally from Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, is a self-taught Inuk photographer who captures landscape and wildlife images within his community. His unique perspectives involve using both a handheld camera and a UAV/drone.
Allen was featured in the solo exhibition Resemblance at The Rooms in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He has also participated in group exhibitions, including INUA at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajug and Paris Photo in France, as well as shows at Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto, and La Guilde in Montreal. His work is also found in private, corporate, and public collections such as the RBC Art Collection, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
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Eldred Allen, Cold Embrace, 2020. Digital photograph, dimensions variable. © Eldred Allen. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Casey Koyczan
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Casey Koyczan is a Dene interdisciplinary artist from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Using various mediums to communicate how culture and technology can grow together, he explores who we are, where we come from, and where we are going.
Koyczan’s work focuses on creating with unrestricted freedom, making the unrealistic a reality, conceiving environments unbounded by the laws of physics, and imagining his people and their stories within future generations. In his art practice, he uses whatever tools he considers necessary to bring an idea to fruition. Most recently, this has included 3D, virtual reality, augmented reality, 360, audio and video.
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Casey Koyczan, Ancestors (2), 2023. Still from digital video, dimensions variable. © Casey Koyczan. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Taqralik Partridge
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Taqralik Partridge is an Ottawa-based writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and curator, originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. She is a former editor-at-large for the Inuit Art Quarterly, and her curatorial projects have been featured in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Guelph.
Partridge's visual work has been presented in Sydney, Australia; and London, England; and at various galleries across Canada. Her work is part of the major beadwork exhibition Radical Stitch, on view at the National Gallery of Canada in 2024.
Jason Sikoak
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Jason Sikoak is an interdisciplinary Inuk artist from Rigolet, Nunatsiavut. Inspired by the stories of Elders and fellow Inuit artists, Sikoak has created a body of work exploring themes of spirituality, colonialism, environmental issues, and contemporary and historical Inuit life.
Sikoak holds a BFA in Studio Arts and Art History from Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, where they are currently based. Their works have been published in Canadian Art, Inuit Art Quarterly, and Inuktitut Magazine, and they have exhibited at La Guilde in Montreal, The Rooms in St. John’s, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. Sikoak has also designed two coins for the Royal Canadian Mint.
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Jason Sikoak, Seal Hunter, 2019. Silver ink on archival black paper, 101.5 cm × 66 cm. © Jason Sikoak. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Jessica Winters
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Jessica Winters is a painter, mixed-media artist, and curator from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, currently living in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Trained as a biologist at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Winters made a full-time commitment to art following a 2021 residency on Fogo Island. Her art practice focuses on translating seemingly conventional Inuit experiences into something more provocative and nostalgic, often using the displacement of objects, people and activities to offer new interpretations of daily life.
Winters has been featured in numerous group shows, including Surfacing (2023) at Feheley Fine Arts in Toronto, and Coming into Sight: 50th Anniversary Art Bank Acquisitions (2023) at the Canada Council for the Arts in Ottawa. She created a new mural installation for the 2023 Bonavista Biennale: Host, which was also featured at OCAD University’s Onsite Gallery in early 2024.
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Jessica Winters, Auntie Dinah's Grasswork, 2022. Acrylic on cold pressed paper, 76.2 × 55.9 cm. © Jessica Winters. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
