only know year of birth and death for certainwas married to Luke Anguhadluq, mother of Barnabus Oosuah, Thomas Iksiraq and Mark Uqayyuittuq (by adoption), grandmother of Sarah Niungittuq----------------------------Marion Tuu'luq was born around 1910 near the coastal waters of Chantrey Inlet. Before she was a year old her mother passed away, and when she was ten her invalid father died, by which time she was living with relatives in the Garry Lake area to the west. In 1928 she married her cousin, Ujarai, with whom she would have 13 children (only four survived to adulthood). After Ujarai died in 1954, Tuu'luq married the great camp leader Luke Anguhadluq (1895-1982), remaining with the latter until his death in 1982. Following their move to the new settlement of Baker Lake in 1961, Tuu'luq and Anguhadluq both took up art making as a way to provide for themselves and their families, both becoming prominent artists within the community. Along with her contemporary Jessie Oonark (1906-1985), Tuu'luq was one of the first artists to make appliquéd and embroidered wallhangings from imported fabric and thread, a form for which women artists of Baker Lake would become famous. Tuu'luq also began producing drawings, a number of which became the basis for prints. In 2002, a selection of her wallhangings was featured in a major solo exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada that toured to cities across Canada. Although a skin allergy forced Tuu'luq to give up art making in 1989, she continued to enjoy life and her family until her death in 2002.At once sensuously expressive and at least partially decorative, Tuu'luq's wallhangings consist mostly of groups of imagesÑhuman forms and faces, animals and spiritsÑarranged either in layered rows or in circular patterns around a central image or figure. Borders consisting of circles or stripes of alternating colours frame many of her works, while a few are made up entirely of such repetitive-decorative elements, resembling modernist abstractions. Tuu'luq's colour schemes are by turns subtly subdued and intensely dramatic. As with most wallhangings from Baker Lake, many of Tuu'luq's designs are symmetrical or semi-symmetrical; a few, however, consist of truly chaotic jumbles of images. In many of her best works, the ground is effectively covered over by a clutter of interlocking shapes and motifs, expressing, in the words of Marie Bouchard, Tuu'luq's "sense of the spiritual interconnectedness of the world."While based on a similar imagery of faces, figures, animals and transformation scenes, Tuu'luq's drawings and prints are generally less complexly composed than her wallhangings, and feature fewer images. Often strongly coloured, many of these works are notable for their representations of sensuous shapes and are distinguished, too, by Tuu'luq's unmistakable line of controlled elegance.Selected ReferencesMarion Tuu'luq (2002), Marie Bouchard-----http://www.carleton.ca/gallery/Creature/Bios.html#Tuu'luuqMarion Tuu'luuq, the wife of Luke Anguhadluk, was involved in Baker Lake sewing projects in the 1960s. In 1970 she began drawing and by 1974 her prints were included in the annual collection. Her work has been included in nearly 50 exhibitions. In 1990 she received an honourary Doctor of Law Degree from the University of Alberta. Before moving into the settlement at Baker Lake at 50, Tuu'luuq lived in the area around Chantry Inlet and the Back River. The Inuit in this area lived primarily on caribou and fish, so it is not surprising that fish imagery is prominent in her drawings (Marion Jackson and Judith Nasby, Contemporary Inuit Drawings, 1987). =-----------------------The exhibition Marion Tuu'luq (organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada) brings together 37 fascinating works on cloth by one of Canada's foremost Inuit artists. With vivid colour, delicate embroidery, and lively appliqués, Baker Lake artist Marion Tuu'luq illustrated her experience of life in the Canadian Arctic before and after the massive social, economic and political changes that took place throughout the twentieth century. Her wall hangings reflect the significance of land and family to the Inuit people and depict the joys, hardships and realities of change. This retrospective of Tuu'luq's remarkable work began its tour at the National Gallery of Canada in fall 2002. For more than two years, Tuu'luq had worked closely with guest curator Marie Bouchard and associate curator Marie Routledge to prepare for the exhibition, but she did not witness the realization of their efforts. On September 22, Tuu'luq died at the age of ninety-one, just two weeks before the opening reception. This exhibition represents over twenty years of Tuu'luq's extraordinary artistic accomplishments. Born around 1910 in the Chantry Inlet/Back River area of Nunavut, she lived a traditional, nomadic life on the land. In the 1960s, the threat of starvation compelled her family to move to the settlement of Baker Lake. Tuu'luq was profoundly changed by her estrangment from the rhythms of the nomadic life; although, she was relieved to have escaped the hardships of life on the land. Tuu'luq learned to sew from the women in her family who made hardy clothing and footwear that protected their husbands and children from the harsh elements. She brought a unique decorative flair and artistry to her designs, as well as making the clothing wind and water proof. In 1970, art advisors Jack and Sheila Butler introduced a new art making program to Baker Lake that gave artists like Tuu'luq the opportunity to marry her sewing skills with artistic expression. From the outset, Tuu'luq's work showed great detail and a delightful sense of humour. Her wall hangings reflect a unified vision of traditional Inuit life with human, animal and spirit figures linked together in dynamic designs. The works in this exhibition were located by Marie Bouchard in both public and private collections throughout North America, including two wall hangings from the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre collection: Tele-Vision Spirits (c 1980) and Composition (c 1981). Bouchard says that Ôit was a deeply satisfying journey honouring the work of a woman she respects as an artist and loves as a friend.' The exhibition Marion Tuu'luq features art work showing the particular experience and remarkable imagination of one Inuit woman whose Ôsingular vision celebrated the eternal recurrence of life and the conviction that what the Inuit dread most — extinction — will not occur.'---------------------Exhibitions/Expositions 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, Baker Lake Print Collection 1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, (annual collection)  1987, 1988, 1990 (illustrated catalogue) 1974 Crafts from Arctic Canada/Artisanat de l'arctique canadien  Canadian Eskimo Arts Council  Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue) September - November 1976 Tuu'luq/Anguhadluq Winnipeg Art Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue) October 1976 Anguhadluq/Tuu'luq: Husband and Wife of Baker Lake  The Upstairs Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba January 1977 - June 1982 The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit Department of Indian Affairs and  Northern Development and the  National Museum of Man  Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue) March - June 1978 The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art  Winnipeg Art Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue) July 1979 - 1981 Keewatin Wallhangings 1979-1981 Canadian Arctic Producers Ltd.  Ottawa, Ontario (tour) August - November 1979 Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings Winnipeg Art Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba January - February 1980 Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s Inuit Gallery of Vancouver  Vancouver, British Columbia April - May 1980 The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario  University of Guelph  Guelph, Ontario (illustrated catalogue) June - July 1980 Wallhangings Theo Waddington  New York, New York, U.S.A. August - October 1980 The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood To Be Full  Winnipeg Art Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue) November 1980 Baker Lake Prints - Ten Year Retrospective The Upstairs Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba December 1980 Lukta, Cape Dorset Sculpture/Tuu'luq, Baker Lake Wallhangings, Drawings  Inuit Art Gallery of Vancouver  Vancouver, British Columbia December 1982 - January 1983 Noel au Chateau - Art inuit de la collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre  Macdonald Stewart Art Centre  Guelph, Ontario  presented at Chateau Dufresne  Montreal, Quebec February - April 1983 Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings: 1970-1976  Winnipeg Art Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue) May 1983 - April 1985 Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art  Art Gallery of Ontario  Toronto, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue) October - December 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from the Collection of Indian and Northern  Affairs Canada  McMichael Canadian Collection  Kleinburg, Ontario November 1983 - March 1985 Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada Department of Indian Affairs and Northern  Development, Ottawa, presented at the  General Assembly Building, United Nations  New York, New York, U.S.A. (tour) (illustrated brochure) November - December 1984 50 Inuit Prints Canadian Arctic Producers in  coordination with the Hudson's Bay  Company Inuit Art Marketing Service,  held at Simpson's  Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure) May - June 1986 The Spirit of the Land The Koffler Gallery  Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure) December 1987 - March 1989 Contemporary Inuit Drawings Macdonald Stewart Art Centre  Guelph, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue) June - September 1988 The World Around Me University of Lethbridge Art Gallery  Lethbridge, Alberta December 1988 - 1989 Im Schatten der Sonne:Zeitgenossische Kunst der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the  Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit  Art in Canada  Canadian Museum of Civilization  Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue) October 1989 Baker Lake Print Retrospective: A Twenty Year Anniversary  The Upstairs Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue) June 1990 Baker Lake Graphics 1990 Images Boreales (formerly the Eskimo Art Gallery) Montreal, Quebec June - September 1990 Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990 Arctic Artistry  Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A. October - November 1990 A Woman's Vision Art Space Gallery  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. November 1990 Baker Lake Wallhangings The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art  Toronto, Ontario June - November 1991 Qamanittuaq: The Art of Baker Lake National Gallery of Canada  Ottawa, Ontario January - March 1992 The Arctic Project: A Photographic Exchange Surrey Art Gallery  Surrey, British Columbia June - July 1992 Women of the North: An Exhibition of art by Inuit Women of the  Canadian Arctic  Marion Scott Gallery  Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue) December 1992 - May 1993 Inuit Art: Tradition and Regeneration Canadian Museum of Civilization  Hull, Quebec November 1993 Northern Lights: Inuit Textile Art from the Canadian Arctic  Baltimore Museum of Art  Baltimore (tour) July 1994 Arctic Spirit 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art  Frye Art Museum  Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. August 1994 - April 1997 Qamanittuaq: Where the River Widens Drawings by Baker Lake Artists  Macdonald Stewart Art Centre  Guelph, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue) March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi  Galleria d'Arte Moderna  e Contemporanea  Verona, Italy (illustrated catalogue) SOLO EXHIBITIONS: January - February 1980 Marion Tuu'luq Wallhangings The Upstairs Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba-----------------------www.elcalondon.comCollections Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario  Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec  Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.  Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario  Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario  McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario  McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario  Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia  National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario  Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories  Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia  University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta  University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta  Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba ReferencesCTED REFERENCES: Baker, Marilyn  TAPESTRIES REVEAL HUMAN WILL. The Winnipeg Free Press, January 31, 1980. Baker, Marilyn  THE TAPESTRIES OF MARION TUU'LUQ. Branching Out, vol. 7, no. 2, 1980. Blodgett, Jean  GRASP TIGHT THE OLD WAYS: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983. Blodgett, Jean  THE COMING AND GOING OF THE SHAMAN: Eskimo Shamanism and Art. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979. Blodgett, Jean  TUU'LUQ/ANGUHADLUQ. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1976. Butler, Sheila  WALL HANGINGS FROM BAKER LAKE. The Beaver, Autumn, 1972. pp.26-31. Canadian Arctic Producers  KEEWATIN WALLHANGINGS. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers, 1979. Canadian Eskimo Arts Council  CRAFTS FROM ARCTIC CANADA = ARTISANAT DE L'ARCTIQUE CANADIEN. Ottawa: Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, 1974. Driscoll, Bernadette  THE INUIT AMAUTIK: I Like My Hood to be Full. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1981. Driscoll, Bernadette  THE INUIT COLLECTION OF THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY. Canadian Antiques & Art Review, vol. 2, no. 17, April, 1981. pp.36-41. Fernstrom, Katharine W. and Anita E. Jones  NORTHERN LIGHTS: Inuit Textile Art from the Canadian Arctic. Baltimore, Md.: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1993. Gautsche, Nancy  INUIT ART: TRADITION AND REGENERATION: At the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, December 17 to May 2 1993. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 8, No.2, 1993, pp.28-31. Gillmore, Alison  SEWING FINE SEAMS: the Needlecraft of Baker Lake Women. Arts Manitoba, vol.3, no.4, Fall 1984, pp. 29-32. Government of The Northwest Territories  NORTHERN PEOPLE. 1976. Hancock, Lyn  THE ARTISTS OF THE NWT. Above & Beyond, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1990/91, pp. 37-40. Hannan, Eleanor  MARION TUU'LUQ WALLHANGINGS AT UPSTAIRS GALLERY. Artmagazine, 48/49, May/June, 1980. pp.57-59. Jackson, Marion E.  CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS. Guelph, Ontario: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1987. Knowles, Valerie  MARKETING INUIT ART AND CRAFTS. North/Nord, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 1982. pp.42-45. MacKay, Gillian  ESKIMO ART: Elegance and Big Business. The Whig Standard, August 6, 1976. Merklinger, Elizabeth Schotten  IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4, Fall, 1989. pp.20-23. Muehlen, Maria  BAKER LAKE WALL-HANGINGS: Starting from Scraps. Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring, 1989. pp.6-11. Nasby, Judith M.  COLLECTIONS: The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. Inuit Art and Crafts, no. 2, December, 1984. pp.34-41. Upstairs Gallery  MARION TUU'LUQ WALLHANGINGS. Winnipeg: The Upstairs Gallery, 1980. Van Raalte, Sharon  INUIT WOMEN AND THEIR ART. Communique, May 1975. p.21-23. Verona. Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea IMAGINARIO INUIT: ARTE E CULTURA DEGLI ESQUIMESI CANADESI. Commune di Verona: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palazzo Forti, 1995. Werier, Val  ESKIMO ARTIST TAKES HER THEMES FROM NATURE. Winnipeg Tribune, October 19, 1976.email Elca London: [email protected] copyright © Galerie Elca London Ltée., 2005 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED --------------------www.carleton.caMarion Tuu'luuq (B. 1910)Baker LakeMarion Tuu'luuq, the wife of Luke Anguhadluk, was involved in Baker Lake sewing projects in the 1960s. In 1970 she began drawing and by 1974 her prints were included in the annual collection. Her work has been included in nearly 50 exhibitions. In 1990 she received an honourary Doctor of Law Degree from the University of Alberta. Before moving into the settlement at Baker Lake at 50, Tuu'luuq lived in the area around Chantry Inlet and the Back River. The Inuit in this area lived primarily on caribou and fish, so it is not surprising that fish imagery is prominent in her drawings (Marion Jackson and Judith Nasby, Contemporary Inuit Drawings, 1987).

Exhibitions

• 50 Inuit Prints, Canadian Arctic Producers in coordination with the Hudson's Bay Company Inuit Art Marketing Service, held at Simpson's
• A Woman's Vision, Art Space Gallery
• Anguhadluq/Tuu'luq: Husband and Wife of Baker Lake, The Upstairs Gallery
• Arctic Spirit 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art, Frye Art Museum
• Baker Lake - Uncatalogued Prints 1979-1985 A retrospective collection exhibited at selected galleries, organized by, Canadian Arctic Producers
• Baker Lake Graphics 1990, Images Boreales (formerly the Eskimo Art Gallery)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *74, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *75, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *76, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *77, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *78, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *79, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *81, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *83/84, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *85, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *86, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *87, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *88, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Collection *90, (annual collection)
• Baker Lake Print Retrospective: A Twenty Year Anniversary, The Upstairs Gallery
• Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings: 1970-1976, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Baker Lake Prints - Ten Year Retrospective, The Upstairs Gallery
• Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Baker Lake Wallhangings, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
• Baker Lake: Persistence of Old Memories, Brandon Allied Arts Council
• Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, presented at the General Assembly Building, United Nations
• Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
• Crafts from Arctic Canada/Artisanat de l'arctique canadien, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
• Exhibition of Inuit Art, Harbourfront Centre organized by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
• Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
• Im Schatten der Sonne: Zeitgenossische Kunst der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art in Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Immaginario Inuit Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
• Inuit Art: Tradition and Regeneration, Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990, Arctic Artistry
• Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Inuit Masterworks: Selections from the Collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, McMichael Canadian Collection
• Keewatin Wallhangings 1979-1981, Canadian Arctic Producers Ltd.
• Lukta, Cape Dorset Sculpture/Tuu'luq, Baker Lake Wallhangings, Drawings, Inuit Art Gallery of Vancouver
• Marion Tuu'luq Wallhangings, The Upstairs Gallery
• Noel au Chateau - Art inuit de la collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Guelph, Ontario presented at Chateau Dufresne
• Northern Lights: Inuit Textile Art from the Canadian Arctic, Baltimore Museum of Art
• Qamanittuaq: The Art of Baker Lake, National Gallery of Canada
• Qamanittuaq: Where the River Widens Drawings by Baker Lake Artists, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
• Qiviuq: A Legend in Art, Carleton University Art Gallery
• The Arctic Project: A Photographic Exchange, Surrey Art Gallery
• The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood To Be Full, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man
• The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario, University of Guelph
• The Spirit of the Land, The Koffler Gallery
• The World Around Me, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
• Tuu'luq/Anguhadluq, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Wallhangings, Theo Waddington
• Women of the North: An Exhibition of art by Inuit Women of the Canadian Arctic, Marion Scott Gallery

Collections

• Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
• Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
• McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
• Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
• Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
• Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
• University of Alberta, Edmonton
• University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg