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Marion Tuu'luq

Marion Tuu'luq (1910 - 2002) was active/lived in Nunavut / Canada.  Marion Tuuluq is known for Inuit culture textile art, embroidery, stencil, linocut, woodcut.

“The verb “paint” derives from the Latin root pignere, meaning to paint, but also to embroider or tattoo. In more than one sense it is thus a fitting word to bring to a discussion of the works of Marion Tuu’luq. For some twenty years, this artist painted with woolen fabrics and cotton treads, stitching an art of many layers, both metaphoric and physical.

Initially called neevingatah in Inuktitut, which became the rather prosaic “wall hanging” in English, Tuu’luq’s appliqued and embroidered pieces are more aptly described as “works on cloth”.

These works have been coloured by the palette of her experience of living in the Canadian Arctic before and during the social, economic, and political transformations that have marked the North for much of the past century – that is, for much of her life.

Tuu’luq was born in a remote corner of the Canadian Arctic in the early 1900s, lived a nomadic, camp life for five decades, and then settled in Baker Lake, where she   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1291 characters.]  Artist bio

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