Born in Cape Dorset, Nunavut

Adamie Qummiaquk is an Inuit art carver from Cape Dorset, the capital of Inuit art. He lives mainly from the land, hunting and fishing.

Adamie’s sculptural style is a combination of naturalism, observation and reduction to sometimes abstract stylistic forms.

Adamie is influenced by various well-known sculptors when it comes to sculpting bears, especially walking bears.

This artist takes pride in carving in the traditional way; by recovering his own stones that he finds in open pit mines on Baffin Island. He mainly carves marble or serpentine, a local stone found in open pit mines in Nunavut. Serpentine is a rock similar in composition to jade. Just like jade, it is a very hard stone, so it takes a lot of artistic vitality to carve it.