Nalenik Temela (1939 – 2003). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and carver, Nalenik Temela (disc number* E7-71) was born on Baffin Island. He lived in remote camps until the late 1970s when he... Read full biography
Nalenik Temela (1939 – 2003). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and carver, Nalenik Temela (disc number* E7-71) was born on Baffin Island. He lived in remote camps until the late 1970s when he moved to Kimmirut (aka: Lake Harbour), Nunavut, in southern Baffin Island, where he appears to have... Read full biography
Nalenik Temela (1939 – 2003). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and carver, Nalenik Temela (disc number* E7-71) was born on Baffin Island. He lived in remote camps until the late 1970s when he moved to Kimmirut (aka: Lake Harbour), Nunavut, in southern Baffin Island, where he appears to have lived until his death. His works have been exhibited widely in Canada, the USA, and Europe. His stone sculptures and carvings are in many major museum collections in Canada and the USA. (1)(2). His... Read full biography
Nalenik Temela (1939 – 2003). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and carver, Nalenik Temela (disc number* E7-71) was born on Baffin Island. He lived in remote camps until the late 1970s when he moved to Kimmirut (aka: Lake Harbour), Nunavut, in southern Baffin Island, where he appears to have lived until his death. His works have been exhibited widely in Canada, the USA, and Europe. His stone sculptures and carvings are in many major museum collections in Canada and the USA. (1)(2). His primary medium was stone which was occasionally accented with ivory, bone, or antler. His most frequent subjects were arctic wildlife (e.g. birds, bears, seals, walrus, narwhals, and whales) and Inuit genre. His style would be described as Inuit Art*.... Read full biography
Nalenik Temela (1939 – 2003). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and carver, Nalenik Temela (disc number* E7-71) was born on Baffin Island. He lived in remote camps until the late 1970s when he moved to Kimmirut (aka: Lake Harbour), Nunavut, in southern Baffin Island, where he appears to have lived until his death. His works have been exhibited widely in Canada, the USA, and Europe. His stone sculptures and carvings are in many major museum collections in Canada and the USA. (1)(2). His primary medium was stone which was occasionally accented with ivory, bone, or antler. His most frequent subjects were arctic wildlife (e.g. birds, bears, seals, walrus, narwhals, and whales) and Inuit genre. His style would be described as Inuit Art*. Most of Temela’s sculptures are distinguished by their highly polished finishes and uniquely stylized poses of which the askART auction result... Read full biography
Nalenik Temela - Artist Info
About Nalenik Temela: Books
Books & Publications (15)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Inuit Sanaugangit: Art Across Time Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
2023
Wight, Darlene Coward, et al
230 pages (color)
The Stafford Collection of Inuit Sculpture (Winnipeg Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Wight, Darlene Coward
36 pages (color)
Tuvag: Inuit Art and the Modern World
2010
Mantel, Ken and Heather Lane
263 pages (color)
Art Inuit Contemporary Sculpture and Print of the Canadian Inuit Fragments Editions, Paris
2008
Baud, Claude, et all
14 pages (color)
Guide to Kimmirut Artists, 2005 – 2006
2005
Fisher, Kyra V.
125 pages
Inuit: When Words Take Shape (Exhibition of Natural HIstory Museum of Lyon, 2003-2008) (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Brousseau, Raymond, et al
144 pages (color)
Inuit Art: A History
2000
Crandall, Richard C.
420 pages
Sculpture of the Inuit
1999
Swinton, George
302 pages (color)
Inuit Art: A Heritage for the Future (Canadian Guild of Crafts, Quebec)
1999
Watt, Virginia
59 pages (color)
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong
1996
Loeen, James W.
383 pages
Sculpture of the Inuit-
1992
Swinton, George
288 pages
Masters of the Arctic: Art in the Service of the Earth (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Editor, Amway Environmental Foundation, Ada, MI
85 pages (color)
Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks (Amway, Ada, Michigan and Arctic Images Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1989
Edited, United Nations et al
79 pages (color)
Selections from the John and Mary Robertson Collection of Inuit Sculpture (Agnes Etherington Art Centre)
1986
Blodgett, Jean
86 pages (color)
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec: The Permanent Collection (Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec)