Art Books & Exhibition Catalogues

The Spirit Wrestler Gallery has over the years produced a great many catalogues that have illustrated our curated exhibitions. While these have certainly helped to promote our own business, these documents are designed to honour the contributions and careers of individual artists, specific communities or regions, or perceived trends within the artform as a whole.

It has also been our goal to honour the art and artists of the cultures that we support in a much broader sense than just us as an individual gallery. To this date we have produced six major publications that try to support the artform for all that represent these cultures.

“At a time when publications documenting the best work coming out of the North are scarce, this beautifully photographed collection of contemporary Cape Dorset sculptures is a rare treat and a true celebration…. the book reflects its authors’ passion for Inuit art; it is clearly a labour of love.”
—Dorothy Speak, Inuit Art Quarterly

Seekers and Travellers: Contemporary Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast »

by Spirit Wrestler Gallery curator Gary Wyatt

trade paperback with flaps
10 × 8.5 inches, 160 pages
$29.95 CAD

First Nations poles, masks, robes and regalia are among the most storied and distinctive artworks in North America, and Seekers and Travellers showcases some of the best of these from thirty-six of the most acclaimed artists from both sides of the Canada/U.S. border. From wood carvings by Susan Point and Robert Davidson to weavings by Isabel Rorick and Teri Rofkar, from glasswork by Preston Singletary to metal jewelry by Shawn Hunt, this stunning collection reveals the breadth of contemporary Northwest Coast art.

Completing the trilogy that began in 1994 with Spirit Faces followed by Mythic Beings in 1999.