was married to Samson Kayuryuk, mother of Mercy kayuryuk, daughter of Jessie Oonark, sister of W Noah, N Pukingrnak, J Kigusiuq, J Nooeelarik et al.-----------------------www.randafricanart.comVictoria Mamnguqsualuk (b. 1930) is, according to the gallery's artist description, "one of the best known CanadianInuit artists of her generation." Her simple drawings are retellings of Inuit myths and legends. "Brother Moon/SisterSun" presents an illustration of a creation myth and incest taboo that describes the formation of the sun and themoon. The story runs from the paper's bottom left corner and ends at the top, describing a legend in which a girl iskissed by a stranger in the dark. When she discovers that the stranger is her brother, the two flee in shame into thesky to become Sister Sun and Brother Moon.------Victoria MamnguksualuqVictoria Mamnguqsualak (b. 1930)Victoria Mamnguqsualak was born in 1930 in the Back River/Garry Lake area. Her parents were both members of the Utkusiksalingmiut: her father, Kabloonak, was a respected hunter and trapper, while her mother was the now venerated Jessie Oonark (1906-1985). She spent part of her childhood in the care of her grandparents, an arrangement made necessary by the inability of her parents to provide for their growing family in difficult circumstances. When she was old enough she went to live with her future husband, Kayuryuk, with whom she would have eight children. In 1963 Mamnguqsualak moved with her family to Baker Lake, where Oonark and several other relatives now lived. She soon became involved in the community's fledgling arts and crafts programs along with her mother and some of her sisters, but it was only with the arrival of the Butlers in 1969 that she began drawing and making wallhangings on a full-time basis, soon becoming one of Baker Lake's best known artists. After Kayuryuk died in 1983, Mamnguqsualak continued to support herself and members of her family through the sale of her art. Like her mother before her following Kabloonak's death in the early 1950s, she chose to remain a widow, and has never remarried. Between 1970 and 1990 a total of 49 of her images were published as stonecuts, stencils and lithographs. In recent years she has concentrated on making wallhangings, and produces drawings on an infrequent basis.Of all of Oonark's children-artists, Mamnguqsualak has always shown the strongest attraction to the legends and folktales of the Utkusiksalingmiut, the subject matter of most of her drawn and sewn images. Her images are most often created in a narrative sequential style, in which many episodes belonging to the same story are illustrated side by side within a single composition. Many works show figures overlapping one another to create a sense of perspective and depth. Some works, however, are rendered more emblematically as unified, symmetrical or semi-symmetrical images that nonetheless retain strong narrative characteristics.Like the tales upon which they are often based, many of Mamnguqsualak's images contain strange, often frightening creatures. Many works include depictions of snake- or serpent-like beings, while others portray large birds with tiny humans trapped in their giant claws. Stylistically her drawn images have much in common with those of her sisters Janet Kigusiuq and Nancy Pukingrnak, and often feature dense multitudes of human figures outlined in pencil. In these images colour is frequently reserved for the trimmed edges of parkas, rendered as ribbons of blue, green, purple or yellow: seen from a distance, they take on a pattern-like life of their own, transformed into squiggles that dance across the paper's surface. Her wallhangings, by contrast, are always fully coloured, and often feature borders of carefully embroidered human faces of alternating light and dark colour.Selected ReferencesQamanittuaq: Where the River Widens (1994), Judith Nasby, ed.Mamnguqsualuk and the Rebirth of Legend at Baker Lake (1986), Charles H. Moore---------Victoria MamnguqsualukBorn: 1930Drawings, Prints, Wallhangings, Sculpture - FemaleVictoria's husband Samson Kayuryuk is also an artist.She is the daughter of the famous artist Jessie Oonark.She moved to Baker Lake with her family in 1963 and has been an active member of the art community there since its' inception.Her work is a part of many important collections including the National Gallery of Canada-------------Laura McWilliams / Rocky Mountain Newscited in: http://www.randafricanart.com/SURVIVAL_Inuit_Art.htmlVictoria Mamnguqsualuk (b. 1930) is, according to the gallery's artist description, "one of the best known CanadianInuit artists of her generation." Her simple drawings are retellings of Inuit myths and legends. "Brother Moon/SisterSun" presents an illustration of a creation myth and incest taboo that describes the formation of the sun and themoon. The story runs from the paper's bottom left corner and ends at the top, describing a legend in which a girl iskissed by a stranger in the dark. When she discovers that the stranger is her brother, the two flee in shame into thesky to become Sister Sun and Brother Moon.----------- Victoria Mamnguksualuq was born in 1930 in the Garry Lake, Back River area, approximately 250 km northwest of Qamanittuaq [Baker Lake], Keewatin region, Nunavut.Mamnguksualuq lived with her family for a portion of her childhood but was raised by her grandparents. Greatly influenced by her grandmother's teachings the artist has devoted a good portion of her career to the graphic interpretation of stories told to her as a child. [Grandmothers were traditionally storytellers in Inuit society]. The epic story of Qiviuq, involving numerous episodes and cycles, sometimes relayed in random order, is a focal point in many of her drawings and prints.Mamnguksualuq and her husband and children moved to Qamanittuaq [Baker Lake] in the early 1960's. In 1963 she became active in the early art program and began to make stone sculpture, abandoned shortly thereafter, followed by drawings and wall hangings. Jack Butler, the new crafts officer in 1969, encouraged her to make drawings of the old legends and stories. Many of these drawings were translated into prints from 1970 to 1990, again in the late 90's and up until 2001. [Printmaking, in its various incarnations, has ceased for the moment in Qamanittuaq [Baker Lake]. The last annual collection was released in 2001.]Mamnguksualuq is well known for her strong, narrative drawings and embroidered and appliquéd wall hangings. She continues to work in both media today. An established second-generation artist, she is the daughter of the famous Jessie Oonark [1906-1985]. ----------------Victoria Mamnguqsulak (B. 1930) Baker Lake http://www.carleton.ca/gallery/Creature/Bios.html#Settling in Baker Lake in the early 1960s so their children could attend school, Mamnguqsulak and her husband soon became involved with soapstone carving. She was encouraged by her mother to try making wall hangings, and by Jack and Sheila Butler to try drawing. The artist frequently turns to legends for inspiration (Jackson and Nasby, 1987). In 1986 she had a one-woman show at the Ring House Art Gallery which was devoted specifically to her works which illustrate the Qiviak legend. ----------------www.sacredhooptrading.comVictoria Mamnguqsualuk - InuitBorn: 1930Place of Birth: Black River AreaResides: Baker LakeDrawings, Prints, Wallhangings, SculptureVictoria Mamnguqsualuk is one of the best-known Canadian Inuit artists of her generation. As a second generation Inuit artist, Mamnguksualuk's art is influenced by her exposure to images from the outside world. To a greater degree than many of her predecessors, she uses the conventions of European art in her depictions of three-dimensional space and sequential action. Complex scenes involving multiple figures and vigorous activity, particularly in her depiction of Inuit myth, characterize her work.