BC artists
Mayor announces 2010 Arts Awards
Vancouver poet and novelist Evelyn Lau and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival executive director Norman Armour are among the recipients of this year’s Mayor’s Arts Awards. Lau (Living Under Plastic) was named the winner in the literary arts category and Armour, whose edgy PuSh Festival has become one of the most anticipated events on the [...]
Nakusp artists wins national award
To be an artist doesn’t have to mean going to school for years to develop your style. It doesn’t have to mean even working at it from a young age in an attempt to create perfection. An artist can be born at any age, any time, anywhere. And that’s what Sharon Bamber has found out [...]
Artists for Conservation: World Renowned Artists Offer Original Works to Virtual Exhibit Benefiting Conservation Charities
Artists for Conservation, the world’s leading group of nature artists, today announced the launch of its first virtual exhibit, which will feature original works by Robert Bateman and some of the world’s most regarded artists. The exhibit, which will be shown exclusively online, will showcase 150 conservation-themed paintings and sculptures by some of the world’s [...]
Kelowna: Performance art questions borders and boundaries
Fine arts graduate students from UBC-Okanagan are tackling the issues of borders and boundaries through interpretive art. Lara Haworth and Nicole Cormaci created the Woodhaven Customs and Border Patrol project at Woodhaven Conservancy in Kelowna. Any individual wishing to enter Woodhaven must fill out a visa application and carry that document with them at all [...]
Polka Dot Door host and Nylons singer Simpson dead
Beloved Canadian actor and singer Denis Simpson — the host of the children’s show Polka Dot Door and one of the founding members of the band The Nylons — died Friday after suffering a brain hemorrhage in Toronto. He was just shy of his 60th birthday. Simpson was born in Jamaica, grew up in Toronto, [...]
Humanitarian award for Joy Coghill
We know her best as a tireless champion of Canadian theatre, but veteran actor and director Joy Coghill has just been honoured for yet another facet of her many-sided career. The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced that Coghill, 83, will receive its 2010 Humanitarian Award. As co-founder and honorary president of — [...]
Legendary Victoria Hotel Welcomes Artist in Residence — David Goatley, SFCA, CIPA
The Fairmont Empress is delighted to welcome international artist, David Goatley, to the legendary Victoria hotel’s inaugural Artist in Residence series, which begins November 5, 2010. Goatley, who is widely regarded as one of North America’s leading portrait painters, was born in London, England, and trained at London’s Camberwell School of Art before settling with his [...]
B.C. art book wins Vancouver Book Award
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual, a book that gathers work by dozens of B.C. visual and literary artists, has won the City of Vancouver Book Award. Mayor Gregor Robertson presented the $2,000 prize to editor Scott Steedman at a city council meeting Wednesday. Steedman, a freelance editor and author, shares the award with [...]
Ucluelet: Two artists, one community, one country
An art exhibit in Ucluelet this weekend will have local artists Joan Larsen and Ken Kirkby coming together for an unveiling of new work and a re-release of the world’s largest oils-on-canvas painting both in support of the Ucluelet Aquarium. Larsen has been awarded the designation of Premier Pastellist with the Pastel Society of Canada, [...]
New Westminster: Autumn Open House featuring New Westminster Artists
Exhibition on October 16, 2010 at the Van Dop Gallery Presenting New Westminster Artists: Internationally recognized Leslie Poole draws on years of experience to create works of deeply felt emotion. Poole’s paintings, drawings, and prints question life and art through subjects as diverse as: male and female figures, still life, landscape, and self-portraits from realist to expressionist [...]
Vancouver: Portrait of the artist as mean-streets hustler
On a mild evening in early September, Ken Foster – his black sweatshirt’s hood framing a gaunt face partly concealed behind a scraggly beard – hovers on the periphery of a Vancouver pub’s patio clutching a medium-sized painting. The piece is a mix of spray-paint and charcoal pencil, the scrawny artist explains to a backpacker [...]
Victoria: Emily Carr statue to be unveiled
One of Canada’s most eccentric and well-known artists is being honoured with a bronze statue in a prime Victoria location near the B.C. legislature buildings. Emily Carr’s statue will overlook one of the city’s most popular tourist areas, which includes the stately Fairmont Empress Hotel. The larger-than-life statue shows Carr with two of her most [...]
Beyond mask and totem pole: Vancouver is the hub of a thriving market in contemporary works by Northwest Coast native artists
When British artist Damien Hirst went shopping for a totem pole for his house in Mexico, he set his sights on Vancouver. Hirst, believed to be the wealthiest artist in the world and for years the enfant terrible of the British art world, found what he was looking for at the Douglas Reynolds Gallery on [...]
Vernon: Society prepares for annual Chaos
Western Canada’s largest craft fair is moving ahead with plans for next year. The Creative Chaos Society recently elected its 2010/11 executive, including chair Ingrid Baron, vice-chair Herb Fox, past chair Barb Setter, co-treasurers Marg and Jim McGillivary, secretary Gwen Bartram and director Betty Anderson. “Creative Chaos also includes a great board of committee heads [...]
Merritt: Local ceramic sculptor John Yellowlees goes public, Artist enjoys first exhibition
When local artist Cindilla Trent invited John Yellowlees to share her exhibition space at the Olde Courthouse Arts Centre, he jumped at the chance. “I gave it about 30 seconds of thought,” he recalls. Yellowlees, whose chosen media is sculptural ceramics, and Trent, a multimedia artist who works with clay, cloth, and more, unveiled their [...]
