Siassie Kenneally

Siassie Kenneally was an Inuk artist based in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories. Kenneally was known for her pencil-crayon drawings depicting traditional Inuit lifestyles.

Early life

Siassie Kenneally was born on 29 May 1969 in Iqalugajuk, a traditional camp on the South Baffin coast of Nunavut.
Kenneally comes from a family of artists, her mother Mayureak Ashoona was a celebrated print maker and her father, Qaqaq Ashoona, noted carver. She was the granddaughter of artists Sheouak Petaulassie and Pitseolak Ashoona, and cousins to Shuvinai Ashoona and Annie Pootoogook.

Career

Kenneally began to draw 2004 while in the Kinngait Co-operative. She specialised in color pencil works.
Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Dennos Museum. In 2017, her work had a solo exhibition at Feheley Fine Arts titled "All the Things That I Have Seen". The work was created very soon after her son's suicide.
Kenneally died in 2018.