Made with Love: Tracing Personal and Cultural Resilience in Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings

• Main Author: Lawrence, Emily
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Annie Pootoogook; Inuit art; contemporary drawing; Kinngait; Cape Dorset; Love; Resilience; Cultural Sovereignty; Qallunaat; inuit
• Online Access: https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/2358/; https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/2358/1/Lawrence_Emily_2018_MA_CADN_MRP.pdf

Looking at the drawings of Kinngait-born Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook (1969– 2016), this major research paper foregrounds deep readings of the artist’s work beyond other narratives that have historically eclipsed such analyses of Inuit art. Through examining a series of Pootoogook’s drawings pertain...