Taqralik Partridge (photo courtesy of Inuit Art Foundation)
The Inuit Art Foundation has appointed multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer Taqralik Partridge as inaugural Inuit editor-at-large of the Inuit Art Quarterly.
Originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Que., and now based in Kautokeino, Norway, Partridge has extensive experience in both publishing and arts administration, previously holding senior positions at the Avataq Cultural Institute in Montreal, where she oversaw the organization’s publications.
Partridge’s short story Igloolik won first prize in the Quebec Writing Competition in 2010 and she was the guest editor of ARC Poetry Magazine in 2014. She is also a former member of the Inuit Art Quarterly’s editorial advisory council.
She recently co-curated the landmark exhibition Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and her work is included in the travelling exhibition ᐊᕙᑖᓂᑦ ᑕᒪᐃᓐᓂᑦ ᓄᓇᑐᐃᓐᓇᓂᑦ Among All These Tundras. She has published widely with her writing appearing in Inuktitut, ArtsEverywhere, CBC Books and Maisonneuve, among others.
“I am excited to see the vibrancy of the arts in all of our Inuit communities, both in the Inuit regions in the North and in many other places where Inuit now live,” Partridge says. “I hope through this work I can help to encourage artists and Inuit working in the arts field, and I look forward to learning from the many artists whose work I am so fortunate to encounter."
Source: Inuit Art Quarterly