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9th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition to visit Vancouver
VANCOUVER, November 21, 2007 — RBC, The Canadian
Art Foundation and the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design
(ECI) would like to invite you to preview the RBC Canadian
Painting Competition Exhibition at a reception at the Emily
Carr Institute Concourse Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver
on November 28, 2007. The exhibition features artwork from
Eastern, Central and Western Canada.
Several artists from Western Canada, whose works form part
of the exhibit, will be in attendance including:
- this year's national winner and ECI graduate, Vancouver's
Arabella Campbell, who was awarded $25,000;
- Calgary's Chris Millar who received an honourable mention
and was awarded $15,000;
- ECI graduates Eli Bornowsky and Angus Ferguson, both of
Vancouver;
- 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:
November 28, 2007
TIME:
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design
1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island
The RBC Canadian Painting Competition Exhibition will be
on display at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design from
November 28 - November 30. The exhibition has been 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:
Carmen Stossel, RBC, 604-665-6910, carmen.stossel@rbc.com
Darlene Marks, RBC, 416-974-2727, darlene.marks@rbc.com
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