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RBC names distinguished panel for Eleventh Annual Canadian
Painting Competition
Nine curators, artists, and gallery directors from across
Canada will award a total of $55,000 to winners
TORONTO, April 15, 2009 — RBC, with the support
of the Canadian Art Foundation, today announced the jury panel
for the 2009 RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
"The RBC Canadian Painting Competition supports and
nurtures emerging Canadian artists by providing them a forum
to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully
open doors to future opportunities," said Gay Mitchell,
deputy chairman, RBC Wealth Management. "The competition
gives these artists the opportunity to showcase their work
to some of the most respected members of the Canadian visual
arts community."
The 2009 jury panel is made up of nine distinguished members
of the visual arts community, including curators, gallery
directors and artists, representing every region of Canada.
The 2009 RBC Canadian Painting Competition jury panel consists
of:
- Nathalie de Blois, Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée
national des beaux-arts du Québec
- Victoria Page, Owner, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax
- Etienne Zack, Artist, Montreal
- Benjamin Diaz, Director, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto
- John Kissick, Artist & Director, School of Fine Art
and Music, University of Guelph
- Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Curator, Contemporary Art,
National Gallery of Canada
- Ken Lum, Artist, Vancouver
- Nancy Tousley, Senior Art Writer, Calgary Herald
- Kathleen Ritter, Assistant Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery
"RBC and the Canadian Art Foundation work closely to
deliver a top quality competition and a big part of that is
the selection of top quality judges," said Ann Webb,
executive director, Canadian Art Foundation. "The members
of this jury panel were selected because each has unique expertise
to offer. We feel their diverse backgrounds and experiences
will serve the competition and the entrants well."
Entries are now being accepted for the 2009 RBC Canadian
Painting Competition and must be submitted by May 3, 2009.
Details and rules of the competition may be found at www.rbc.com/paintingcompetition.
The submitted works will be short-listed to 15 semi-finalists
by independent panels of regional judges. All regional jurors
come together in May in Toronto to determine one national
winner and two honourable mentions.
The 2009 winner will be announced October 7 and all 15 paintings
will be on exhibit at the Musée d'art contemporain
in Montreal. The three winning paintings will then travel
to Toronto where they will be displayed at the Toronto International
Art Fair October 22 - 26 followed by an exhibition of all
15 paintings at the Power Plant in Toronto from November 21
-29.
All finalists will be featured in Canadian Art magazine
and on the web at www.rbc.com/paintingcompetition
and www.canadianart.ca.
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 2009 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.
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Media contact:
Suzanne Willers, RBC, 416-974-2727
Jackie Braden, RBC, Media Relations, 416-974-2124
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