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> Introduction to Sheila Butler’s Drawings Sheila Butler’s small graphite and water colour drawings were begun tentatively in her Toronto studio and brought to a northern resolution and focus in the “Art and Cold Cash” drop-in centre during a month-long residency in Baker Lake. Butler often selects subject matter that slurs between northern settlement and southern urban concerns, seeking pictorial means to represent the cross-cultural inflections soprevalent in everyday life in the contemporary Canadian Arctic. This somewhat fragile focus also shifts in some drawings, suggesting a distinctly northern ambience of skidoos, fur-edged hoods and float planes. |
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