Context (CMS Context)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. Part of the Annual Cape Dorset Print collection 2011 (no. 30).

Suvinai/Shuvinai Ashoona, b. August 1961, in Cape Dorset is the daughter of arttss Kiuga Ashoona and Sorosilutu. She began drawing in 1995 and works with pen and ink, coloured pencils and markers with an impressive sensibility for the landscape around the community of Cape Dorset. Her more recent work is very personal and often meticulously detailed.

Shuvinai’s work was first included in the Cape Dorset annual print collection in 1997, with two small dry-point etchings entitled Interior (1997-33) and Settlement (1997-34). Since then, she has become a committed and prolific graphic artist, working daily in the Kinngait Studios. Her work features in private galleries and public institutions. 'She was featured along with her aunt, Napachie Pootoogook, and her grandmother, the late Pitseolak Ashoona, in the McMichael Canadian Collection’s 1999 exhibition entitled Three Women, Three Generations. More recently she was profiled, along with Qavavau Manumie of Cape Dorset and Nick Sikkuark of Gjoa Haven, in the Spring 2008 issue of Border Crossings, a Winnipeg-based arts magazine.

In an unusual contemporary collaboration, Shuvinai worked with Saskatchewan-based artist, John Noestheden, on a “sky-mural” that was exhibited at the 2008 Basel Art Fair and was shown again at Toronto’s 2008 Nuit Blanche. In 2009, her work was presented alongside Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle at the Justin Bernicke Gallery at Hart House. Shuvinai is also the subject of the documentary art film, Ghost Noise, produced and directed by Marcia Connolly. is slowly gaining more international attention and in 2013 she was included in the prestigious Phaidon publication, “Vitamin D2, New Perspectives in Drawing.”'

Biographical details taken from Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, 2012, https://www.inuitartzone.com/collections/ashoona-suvinai (accessed 18/10/2020)

The World view of the title is presented via a literal image of a globe, but not in a cartographic format. It is seen from a vantage point that foregrounds the circumpolar region of the North Pole, Arctic Sea and a set of imaginary or re-imaginged surrounding lands. The world shown is surrounded by satellites which are rather versions of the world itself on a reduced scale, and of each other.

Event Date 14/11/2012
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Print titled 'World View'. Lithograph 12/50.
Event Date 14/11/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Different versions of the artist's name are noted on the print, label and CMS. Research reveals that the Artist goes both by Suvinai Ashoona and Shuvinai Ashoona, see http://www.spiritwrestler.com/catalog/index.php?artists_id=79.
Event Date 10/12/2015
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: The Power of Paper, Li Ka Shing Gallery, MAA, 14 February - 6 December 2015.
Event Date 18/2/2015
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson