“My name is Norman Igloopialik. I’m from Arviat, Nunavut. I moved to the city over 25 years ago.
I’ve been doing art for the past 30 odd years and my artwork is known worldwide and I was an illustrationist for Inuktitut Magazine. I completed two children’s books and I was one of the artists selected to go to the Vancouver Olympics.
Today, I’m in self-marketing on the side. I go to Bank Street and Gladstone two or three times a week for a kind of community environment. People talk to me, I’ll talk to them and I share my side of the story with the art. My style is very simple with pencils.
The reason I bring my art to that spot is because I used to drink. I’m a recovering alcoholic. I’ve been sober 18 months but at the time, I used to drink there but now I go there with my art and the people from there used to know me as a drunk but today they see me as an artist.”
Norman Igloopialik : Artist
