Innukjuakju Pudlat was a celebrated Inuk artist. She was famed for her playful depictions of local wildlife, as well as depicting “histories, contemporary realities and cultural knowledge from the worldviews of the Inuit living in Baffin Island”.
Drawing and printmaking were her principal mediums, whereby she predominantly employed stonecutting techniques, creating engaging linear reliefs that draw the viewer’s eye to the artist’s hand at work.
Growing up in the Kiaktuuq region of Nunavut, she married the renowned graphic artist Pudlo Pudlat, ultimately moving to Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), working alongside her husband and caring for him after he sustained a life changing arm injury whilst hunting.
