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At first sight the Inuit-sculptures seem quite homogenous. In fact their topics and styles are really variable. The motives and topics of the contemporary Inuit-art differ from region to region. Beside classic motives there are illustrations of artisticly carved animals, such as dancing bears, walruses and owls. Realistic illustrations such as mother and child, hunter and son stand beside surrealistic and expressionistic beginnings; domestic life is a theme as well as daemonfigures, ghosts and shaman.

The personal style of each individual Inuit-artist can be recognised when looking closely. Some artists want to enlarge the boundaries of stone, by creating a remarkable variety of figures with expressionistic gestures and partly theatric. (Composition, transformation of trummler to shaman or dancing owl)

The people of Canadian Inuit have the worldwide highest percentage of artists. The reason for that might be the ever since passed down abilities of handcraft, the myths and traditions, that influences their work. Not at least is encouragement of the state a big pro that nowadays led to huge big figures.

Under the ancestors of Greenland there are some carving artists, who do clay figures mostly, called tupilaks.

In Canada many women carve sculptures. Others specialize on fur-cloth applications or lithographic prints, as the state started weave- and printingfactories, and brought paper and colors into the North.