Octopus's Garden

Etching & Chine Collé Paper: Arches White
Printer: Studio PM
49.2 x 52.6 cm (19 x 21 in.)

Padloo Samayualie (b. 1977) comes from a family of well-known artists. Her grandparents on her mother’s side are renowned sculptors Qababuwa and Taraya Tunnillie and on her father’s side Keeleemeeoomie Samayualie was a grandmother and Elijakota Samayualie was an aunt. Padloo began drawing seriously while attending a Banff drawing workshop in 2001. In 2007 she was part of an animation workshop in Cape Dorset and she has studied jewelry making at Arctic College.