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Cindy Blazevic & Pascal Paquette
Houses (Springtime in Iqaluit Series)
acrylic and oil painting on canvas
24" x 30"
About the Work
In Iqaluit, the average house costs $380,000 while rent for a one-bedroom apartment is upwards of $1,500 a month.
In 2001, Nunavut had 7,170 households with the average household size being 3.7 persons, the highest number in Canada. Of these, 4,215 households lived in single-detached houses. 2,810 households lived in other dwellings, including row houses and apartments in buildings with fewer than five stories. 140 households lived in apartments in buildings with five or more stories. And five households lived in mobile homes.
The average household income in Nunavut in 2000 was $59,206 for a family of five.
About the Artist
Cindy Blazevic is a Toronto-born photo-based artist. Cindy graduated from the University of Toronto with a specialist degree in International Relations, but finds in the art world the means to pursue her lines of thinking. Her artwork explores and questions learned assumptions and assigned values in society.
Pascal Paquette was born in Hawkesbury, Ontario but grew up in the Outaouais region. He studied graphic arts at La Cité Collégiale in Ottawa before relocating to Toronto. His work focuses on the transformation of culture that occurs when two or more economic, social or cultural realities collide. He exhibits and works both locally and internationally.
