Daughter of Luke Anguhadluq (see lot 67), Ruth Qaulluaryuk relocated to Qamani’tuaq in her late teens where, in addition to drawing, she monetized her skills as seamstress making handicrafts at the newly established craft centre. As she refined her craft, her works turned increasingly toward abstracted depictions of a familiar motif in Inuit art: the land. The present untitled wall hanging, a beautiful entanglement of texture and colour, bears witness to the dense and kaleidoscopic variety of the arctic landscape. The stolid grey ground of the present work is dramatically embroidered, almost in its entirety, in colours that are too variegated to name. In her decidedly different approach to the often seen portrayals of a more structured solemnity of the Arctic landscape,