Artist Joe Ashoona
Title Owl Transformation
Media white stone carving
Dated
2008
Size 8.75 x 6.75 x 5 in. / 22.2 x 17.1 x 12.7 cm.
Sold $450
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed and dated on bottom; bears title on gallery label included
Provenance
Lit'l Bear's Art Gallery, Yellowknife, label included
Biographical Information
Joe Ashoona ~ [b. 1988] Inuit
Born in 1988 on Baffin Island, Joe makes his home in Yellowknife. He is a 4th generation Inuit artist and part of the Ashoona family of Cape Dorset, one of Canada's most successful Inuit art families.Joe works along side of Goota Ashoona, Koomuatuk Curley and Bob Kussy in Yellowknife creating works in soapstone and whalebone. Joe's early childhood saw him travelling to Inuit art exhibitions across North America with his parents and grandparents.
The family's strong artistic tradition has influenced and inspired Joe to choose art as his career. While still in school, Joe and his brother represented the NWT at the national schools history fair, attended the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, traveled the largest annual sculpture show in North America. Joe's style focuses upon Inuit shamanic subjects and stories together with owls and bears.