Tarralik Duffy, the artist that won last year’s Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award, has a new exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)-Qaumajuq, were she was also artist-in-residence. Duffy, an Inuk multimedia artist and jewellery maker from Salliq (Coral Harbour), Nunavut, now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. “The artwork in Gasoline Rainbows captures the creative range and cultural influence that made Tarralik the winner of the 2021 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award,” Marie-Anne Redhead, Assistant Curator of Indigenous & Contemporary Art, WAG-Qaumajuq, said. Recognizing mid-career artistsKenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013) is a renowned Inuk artist who lived most of her life in Cape Dorset in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. The biennial Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award was established in 2014 as a way to recognize mid-career Inuk artists.
