Manasie Akpaliapik
Manasie Akpaliapik | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 (age 70–71) |
| Known for | Sculpture (whalebone, ivory, stone) |
| Website | manasie.com |
Manasie Akpaliapik (born 1955) is a Canadian Inuk sculptor.[1][2]
Akpaliapik was born in a hunting camp on Baffin Island, Nunavut, and moved with his family to Ikpiarjuk (Arctic Bay) in 1967.[2] Though his parents were sculptors, he learned to carve at age ten by observing his grandparents.[1]
At age 12 he was sent to residential school in Iqaluit where his language and culture were suppressed.[1][3] Akpaliapik left residential school at 16 years old.[1][3]
Akpaliapik married a woman named Noodloo and returned to Arctic Bay with his family.[1][3] His wife and their two children were killed in a fire in 1980, after which Akpaliapik moved to Montreal and subsequently to Toronto.[1][3]
Work
[edit | edit source]Akpaliapik sculpts with bone, ivory, and stone.[3] His sculptures typically have human or animal forms and are closely connected with traditional beliefs.[4] He began to carve professionally after 1980.[1]
On his work, he says:
Everything that I'm doing is trying to capture some of the culture, about my traditions, simple things like hunting, wearing traditional clothing, harpoons, using legends. I feel that the only way we can preserve the culture is if people can see it.[1]
In 1989, he received a Canada Council of the Arts grant to study certain aspects of Inuit culture, including drumming and kayak making, for his project North Baffin Island Legends.[1][2] He also delivers workshops about Inuit art.[1]
Akpaliapik was long-listed for the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award in 2023.[5]
Exhibitions and collections
[edit | edit source]Akpaliapik's works are in included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa,[1] Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec[6] and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.[7]
In 2017, the Art Gallery of Ontario held a solo exhibition of his work.[4]
In 2021 the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec held Manasie Akpaliapik Inuit Universe with works from the collection of Raymond Brousseau, the first time it devoted an exhibition to a single Inuk artist.[8]
In 2024 Montreal's McCord Stewart Museum reprised and expanded upon the 2021 exhibition, called Manasie Akpaliapik, Inuit Universe.[9]
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External links
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- 1955 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian sculptors
- 21st-century Canadian sculptors
- 20th-century Canadian male artists
- 21st-century Canadian male artists
- 20th-century Inuit artists
- 21st-century Inuit artists
- Canadian animal artists
- Animal sculptors
- Artists from Nunavut
- Canadian Inuit artists
- Canadian male sculptors
- Inuit from Nunavut
- Inuit sculptors
- People from Arctic Bay