Oviloo Tunnillie: A Woman's Story in Stone

Clean, tight, unmarked; a few very light scratches to covers; very light handling wear to pages; otherwise very minimal wear; The development of Tunnillie's work is surveyed from its beginnings in 1966 until her death in 2014. Her early work reflects typical genres of realistic animals and figures. But in the 1980s she began to explore less traditional themes, such as a football player in 1981. In the 1990s Tunnillie's work became predominantly autobiographical, and she revealed her childhood trauma of contracting tuberculosis and being separated from her family to undergo treatment in Manitoba hospitals. Tunnillie's sculpture tells personal stories from her experiences in the Arctic as well as in southern Canada. A seemingly endless range of emotions are revealed in the body language of her figures that bridge cultural gaps and express the universality of human female experience.