9th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition to visit Barrie
TORONTO, October 9, 2007 — RBC, The Canadian
Art Foundation and the MacLaren Arts Centre would like to
invite you to preview the RBC Canadian Painting Competition
Exhibition at a reception at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie
on October 17, 2007. The exhibition features artwork from
Eastern, Central and Western Canada.
Several recognized artists from Central Canada, whose works
form part of the exhibit will be in attendance, including
Toronto's Melanie Authier who received an honourable mention
in the national contest and was awarded $15,000, as well as
Kim Dorland of Toronto, Jennifer Lefort of Toronto, Anders
Oinonen of Toronto and Ben Pinkney of Toronto.
Arabella Campbell of Vancouver was named national winner
and was awarded $25,000 and Calgary's Chris Millar was awarded
$15,000 for honourable mention.
With a total of $55,000 in prize money, the RBC Canadian
Painting Competition has Canada's largest arts award disbursement
for painting. The artists will be on hand to participate in
one-on-one interviews.
DATE: October 17, 2007
TIME: 4:30 - 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: MacLaren Art Centr, 37 Mulcaster Street, Barrie
The RBC Canadian Painting Competition Exhibition will be
on display at the MacLaren Art Centre from October 17- 24.
The exhibition is touring prominent galleries across Canada.
For more details on the competition, please visit www.rbc.com/paintingcompetition.
About the RBC Canadian Painting Competition
Established in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition
is a tribute to Canada's artistic talent. The goal of the
competition is to support and nurture Canadian visual artists
early in their career by providing them with a forum to display
their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors
to future opportunity. An investment in Canadian culture and
the visual arts community, the competition will award one
national prize of $25,000 and two honourable mentions will
receive $15,000 each. Along with past winners, the winning
paintings of 2006 will become part of RBC's Canadian art collection
comprised of more than 4,000 works of distinguished art collected
over the past hundred years. Various paintings from the RBC
collection have been exhibited in museums, enabling more Canadians
to enjoy these wonderful works. "Old and New Forest"
by Emily Carr is on loan to the Vancouver Art Gallery from
May 12, 2007 through to April 6, 2008.
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To R.S.V.P. for the media briefing and to book interviews,
please contact:
Dano Spooner, RBC, 416-974-0347, dano.spooner@rbc.com
Darlene Marks, RBC, 416-974-2727, darlene.marks@rbc.com
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