SARAH WHALEN LUNN

Sarah Whalen Lunn is a multi media Inuit artist and traditional tattoo practitioner from Alaska who has recently moved with her family to Calgary, AB. As an artist I feel it is important to facilitate conversation on the social issues facing us as Indigenous people and women. The art that I create, whether it is traditional tattooing or painting, stems from the want to work out my own emotions and heal.

As a visual artist I work with raw emotions, showing the world my perspective and my place in it, it is a true reflection of what I feel (in image) that words sometimes cannot convey. As a traditional tattoo practitioner I work to help reconnect people to our cultures and reclaim our heritage of cultural tattooing that was diminished through colonization. Our tattooing has the ability to connect us as a community and to show who we are as modern Indigenous people. I believe that all art has a chance to open the dialogue necessary for the change we need and that is what I strive to create.