9th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition to visit Winnipeg
WINNIPEG, October 23, 2007 — RBC, The Canadian
Art Foundation and The Winnipeg Art Gallery would like to
invite you to preview the RBC Canadian Painting Competition
Exhibition at a reception at the gallery in Winnipeg on October
30, 2007. The exhibition features artwork from Eastern, Central
and Western Canada.
Several recognized artists from Western Canada, whose works
form part of the exhibit, will be in attendance including
this year's national winner, Vancouver's Arabella Campbell,
who was awarded $25,000, Calgary's Chris Millar who received
an honourable mention and was awarded $15,000, as well as
Eli Bornowsky of Vancouver, Angus Ferguson of Vancouver and
Shaun Morin of Winnipeg.
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 30, 2007
TIME:
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Winnipeg Art Gallery
300 Memorial Blvd
The RBC Canadian Painting Competition Exhibition will be
on display at The Winnipeg Art Gallery from October 31- November
11. 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:
Liz Redston, RBC, 204-988-3516, liz.redston@rbc.com
Darlene Marks, RBC, 416-974-2727, darlene.marks@rbc.com
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