Peter Aningmiuq

One original hand-carved sculpture by Inuit artist, Peter Aningmiuq. One inukshuk carved out of serpentine.

Born in Kimmirut

Peter Aningmiuq resides in Kimmirut, NU (formerly Lake Harbour). Lake Harbour was the site of one of south Baffin Island’s thriving whaling stations in the nineteenth century.Peter lives mainly from the land, hunting and fishing.

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.