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The Student

during 2010
Object > Artwork
Creators and Contributors
Jamasie Pitseolak
Place Made
Cape Dorset, Kinngait
Description
Purchase funded by the Estate of Gwendolyne Lottie Alcock., Hand-painted dry-point etching print. Image shows a black line drawing of a child sitting in a bathtub (with a toilet in the foreground) facing away from a naked adult male standing at the other end facing him, outside the tub. The image of the boy has red brush strokes added around the lines; the adult has green brush strokes added in some areas. There are numerous black diagonal lines with green brush strokes across the image and many crossed lines over the adult figure. Print is signed, dated, numbered (3 of 12) and titled in pencil below the image., One of two prints (The Student and The Day After) created as part of an artist residency at Montreal’s Studio PM. The prints depict abuse that Pitseolak experienced as a child in a the residential school system.

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Repository Object Identifier
2891/1
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