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Earls Court Gallery has highlighted a new group of early Inuit stonecut prints drawn from private collections, presenting works by Flossie Papidluk, William Kaguyt, and Helen Kalvak alongside its current exhibition, ‘Symbols, Vessels & The Stories’. The newsletter frames the arrivals as part of the gallery’s continuing support for Inuit artworks and its work with two cooperatives to encourage innovation and support contemporary Inuit artists.
The new additions include Flossie Papidluk’s ‘Fight For A Woman’ (1977), William Kaguyt’s ‘Trying to Stop A Quarrel’ (1968), and Helen Kalvak’s ‘Sorcerers Against Sorcerers’ (1968). The gallery describes them as early stonecut prints, noting that the format was pioneered in the Canadian Arctic and is typically made through a collaborative process between a graphic artist and a specialized master printmaker. According to the gallery’s explanation, the technique generally produces limited editions of about 50 prints before the stone is ground down for reuse.
Earls Court Gallery says the prints traditionally capture Arctic wildlife, northern camp life, and Inuit spiritual legends, positioning the medium as a vehicle for cultural storytelling. In the newsletter, the gallery emphasizes that these private-collection works are examples of artworks visitors “might have never seen before,” and invites viewers to explore the fuller Inuit art collection rather than only the featured examples.
The gallery’s current exhibition, ‘Symbols, Vessels & The Stories’, remains on view until August 29, 2026. Its curatorial text focuses on vessels as forms that contain and transmit meaning, with figures described as repositories of memory and identity, birds linked to beliefs surrounding mortality, transformation, and remembrance, and ceramic vessels treated as sites covered in imaginative environments. The exhibition text also notes that these motifs often overlap, creating a blurring between object and symbol as well as between decoration and story.
Alongside the Inuit works and the current exhibition, the newsletter includes an open call for consignments for ‘By A Lady: A Historical Survey of Women Artists in Hamilton, 1860–1970’. Earls Court Gallery describes that project as an exhibition and sale celebrating women whose artistic achievements helped shape Hamilton’s cultural landscape.
The call seeks paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and other original works by women artists who lived, worked, exhibited, taught, or significantly influenced the Hamilton art community between the 1860s and the 1970s. The submission period is listed as July 15 to October 10, 2026, with materials to be sent by email to earlscourtgallery@gmail.com. The newsletter notes that submissions will be reviewed for entry.
