Name/Title
A Hockey Rink that Siassie, Bob , Fred, Tuktu MadeEntry/Object ID
2014.14.01Description
Siassie Kenneally (1969–2018) was an Inuit graphic artist born in Iqalugajuk (Iqaluit), Nunavut. She came from a distinguished family of artists hailing from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) that include her grandmother, celebrated graphic artist Pitsulak Ashoona (1904-1983), her father Qaqaq Ashoona (1928-1996), and her mother Mayoreak Ashoona. Her cousins Annie Pootoogook (1969-2016) and Shuvinai Ashoona are also artists of great acclaim.
Siassie Kenneally began her artistic career in 2004, working out of the renowned Kinngait Studios where she created prints and drawings in ink and coloured pencil. Her practice drew from traditional and contemporary Inuit material culture as well as from her own experiences as a child being taught lessons by her father about the relationships between humans, animals, and the land. Kenneally's subject matter is highly intimate and ranges from simple naturalistic landscapes that document the personal lives of her community to still-life drawings of objects that symbolize the complexity and changes in Inuit culture and her own life. The artist frequently plays with perspective in her compositions to emphasize the importance of physical objects, using offset aerial views and linear perspective at the same time to show the interior contents of buildings or the items around figures.
Kenneally’s works have been exhibited throughout Canada and the United States, including the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, AB and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, ON. Her solo exhibition All the Things That I Have Seen (2017) took place at Feheley Fine Arts in Toronto. The exhibition included a large drawing of the same name, completed in 2016 after the death of her son, depicting Kenneally as an atlas-like figure supporting a segmented globe populated with material objects that literally and figuratively comprised her world. Kenneally's works are currently held in the collections of the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, QC and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, ON and other private collections.Artwork Details
Medium
ink and coloured pencil on paperDimensions
Height
91.44 cmWidth
91.44 cm