Photo: Kuujjuaq artist wins accolade

Visual artist Nancy Saunders of Kuujjuaq is the 2017-2018 recipient of the $2,500 Virginia J. Watt Scholarship, awarded by the Inuit Art Foundation. Saunders, whose past work includes a large mural at the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Canada Goose Arctic Gallery, is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in studio arts at Concordia University in Montreal. “My practice has been a journey for me; it has evolved and grown as I have,” she said in a Jan. 25 news release. “Initially my work consisted of simple representation of Inuit ways such as hunting, where I would simply represent a hunter with formal aspects of urban art, such as colour, composition and medium. Presently, I believe that I am now exploring the reaffirmation of the Inuit culture, reclaiming our traditions by ways of applying it to my art.” (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE IAF)