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The Rooms today announced that the Provincial Art Bank Jury has selected 33 original works to be added to the Provincial Art Bank. The newly-acquired artwork includes 15 paintings, six sculptures, six textile works, three prints, two collages, and one photographic work.
With this year’s acquisitions, the Provincial Art Bank Collection has grown to 3,038 works by artists from across the province. These artworks can be found throughout the province in government offices and public buildings, including The Rooms.
Applications for acquisition are reviewed once per year by an independent, external jury selected by the Art Bank Advisory Committee. Artworks are recommended to the Minister of Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation for purchase by the province. The Provincial Government began the Art Bank Collection in 1984 to promote the cultural heritage of the province and to provide economic benefit to artists.
A complete list of this year’s acquisitions is included in the backgrounder below.
Quotes
“With a wide variety of offerings, the 2017 selections for the Provincial Art Bank are sure to excite and impress visitors in all of our public spaces. This program is a wonderful way to showcase and promote many of the emerging and established visual artists in our province, and it builds upon our pledge to artists and the important role they play in society. In November, we legislated The Way Forward initiative of Status of the Artist, which reiterated our government’s commitment to artists in Newfoundland and Labrador.”
Honourable Christopher Mitchelmore
Minister of Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation
“The Rooms is delighted to continue its support of emerging and established local artists through the administration of the Provincial Art Bank Program. This program is of great benefit to artists, visitors and residents alike; it is wonderful to see the Provincial Art Bank Collection grow to more than 3,000 works.”
Dean Brinton
CEO, The Rooms Corporation
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Media contacts
Eric Humber
Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation
709-729-4819, 725-9655
erichumber@gov.nl.ca
Jena Mitchell
Marketing Manager
709-757-8144
jenamitchell@therooms.ca
BACKGROUNDER
Provincial Art Bank Acquisitions – 2017
Artist | Artwork | Medium | Year |
April White | Me, You, Kally | Watercolour | 2016 |
Anita Singh | Isolated Showers | Ceramic sculptures | 2016 |
Greg Bennett | Android Summer | Oil on canvas | 2015 |
Malin Enström | Motorcycle (Groomed Pavement) | Hooked rug | 2017 |
Janet Davis | Waterhaul | Hooked rug | 2015 |
Brent Coffin | The Lily Maid | Oil on canvas | 2015 |
Sylvia Bendzsa | Lobster Fishery, Fogo | Etching | 2016 |
Jonathan Howse | Totem | Mixed media on canvas | 2017 |
Jillian Murphy | Jade’s Potato Garden | Bronze | 2012 |
Susan Furneaux | Rich in the simple worship of the day – John Keats | Textile | 2017 |
Louise Markus | Joanstopia | Mixed media on canvas | 2016 |
Toby Rabinowitz | Twilight II | Acrylic on canvas | 2017 |
Mike Gough | Far From Home | Mixed media on panel | 2017 |
Anthony Barton | Stone Man | Oil on canvas | 2017 |
Sheila Hollander | The V.A.D.s of WW1 | Acrylic on canvas | 2016 |
Darren Whalen | Still Life (Diptych) | Mixed media on canvas | 2014 |
Shawn O’Hagan | Chakra (root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye, crown) | Textile | 2014 -17 |
Edmund Saunders | Inuit Blues | Serpentine, copper, caribou antler marble and aluminum inlaid with epoxy | 2017 |
Denis Abrard | Brook Trout | Wood carving | 2016 |
Jack Botsford | Shoal Bay, Fogo Island | Linocut on panel | 2017 |
Jackie Alcock | Center of the Universe | Hooked rug | 2016 |
Joy E. Hecht | Quidi Vidi Gut from the Plantation | Paper collage | 2017 |
Rhonda Pelley | Swimmer 1 | Archival photographic print | 2017 |
David Baltzer | National Gallery of Art (Calder) | Mixed media on panel | 2015 |
Daniel Rumbolt | Void Beginnings | Ceramic | 2015 |
Stefanie Smith | Beyond the Surface | Ceramic | 2015 |
Jane Reagh | Tablelands #5 | Oil on canvas | 2017 |
Rosalind Ford | Fracked | Textile | 2015 |
Michael Pittman | Screws | Mixed media on board | 2017 |
Kristina Søbstad | The Must be Wild | Oil and pastel on canvas | 2017 |
Brian LaSaga | Beachwood and Fog | Acrylic on panel | 2016 |
Margaret Ryall | Compositions in Time #16 | Found materials | 2016 |
Lori Doody | Capelin Drying IV | Etching | 2016 |