Ilisarniq Workshop: Working with an Art Dealer

Mark Igloliorte (1977- Corner Brook, NL) is an interdisciplinary artist who utilizes painting, as well as performance and installation. Igloliorte is described as an observational artist, who continuously frames and reframes the world around him, not settling on one perspective. His enthusiasm for skateboarding, kayaking, and surfing inform the perspectival shifts he employs in his work. Igloliorte first learned to skateboard at the age of 16 when his family moved back to Corner Brook, Newfoundland after having spent most of his childhood in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Since this point, skateboarding has played a prominent role in his practice-based art making. This is furthered by his interest in bringing to the surface the inherent indigenous roots of skateboarding, which is an offshoot of surfing, a practice started by the Na Kanaka Maoli.

Pat Feheley has been involved with Inuit art since childhood. She visited Kinngait, Nunavut, for the first time in 1969, and since then has travelled extensively throughout the Arctic on a continuous basis. Throughout the years Pat has absorbed a deep first-hand knowledge of contemporary arts in Inuit communities, developing many long-standing relationships with artists along the way. Since establishing Feheley Fine Arts in 1992, Pat’s mission as Director has been to promote contemporary Inuit art and artists to national and international audiences.