The following is being distributed at the request of The Rooms Corporation:
The Rooms is pleased to announce the Provincial Art Bank Jury has selected 31 new works as part of the Provincial Art Bank collection. The selection represents artists from all over the province including Bonavista, Corner Brook, Port Union, Stephenville, St. John’s and Sheshatshui. Art will be displayed in public buildings throughout the province.
This year saw a 20 per cent increase in submissions to the program over the previous year. More than 100 artists submitted 283 artworks in various media for consideration, including four original works by Indigenous Artists, including Nelson White, the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at The Rooms. The selection also includes works by emerging artists Emily Pittman and Hazel Eckert; as well as works by artists Ned Pratt, Marlene Creates and James Miller.
Applications for acquisition are reviewed once a 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
“Congratulations to all artists who had their work selected this year and to all artists who submitted for consideration. The Provincial Art Bank collection is one of a number of ways our government is supporting and promoting the important role our visual artists play in the province. By displaying art in our public buildings we are enriching our public spaces and shining a spotlight on our local artists and their accomplishments.”
Honourable Christopher Mitchelmore
Minister of Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation
“We are so pleased to see an increasing interest in the number of works submitted to the Provincial Art Bank. It’s wonderful to see such a variety of media created by artists from all over the province. It’s truly a representation of what our province has to offer as a celebration of our culture and way of life.”
Anne Chafe,
Executive Director Museums and Galleries, The Rooms
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Media contacts
Eric Humber
Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation
709-729-4819, 725-9655
erichumber@gov.nl.ca
Jena Mitchell
The Rooms
709-757-8144
jenamitchell@therooms.ca
| Artist | Artwork | Medium | Year |
| Nelson White | Gordon At the Table | Acrylic on canvas | 2017 |
| Mary Ann Penanshue | Kapempant (Airplane) | Acrylic on canvas | 2018 |
| Marcus Gosse | Shining Bright (Paqasit) | Acrylic on canvas | 2015 |
| Jonathan Howse | Icon | Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas | 2017 |
| Michael Flaherty | Rangifer Sapiens: 1921-1922 | White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze and clear glaze | 2014 |
| Jason Wells | Patrick and Pleasant | Relief, steamroller printed | 2016 |
| Kathleen Knowling | Every Visitor Wants to See a Whale | Acrylic, watercolour and collage on paper | 2017 |
| Ned Pratt | Tourism ed. 3/7 | Chromogenic print | 2018 |
| Bill Rose | The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth But Not the Mineral Rights… | Oil on canvas | 2007 |
| Marlene Creates | February 5, 2018 Series; What Came to Light at Blast Hole Pond River, NL etc. |
Archival digital pigment print | 2017 |
| Kym Greeley | That’s All I Ask | Acrylic on canvas | 2018 |
| Veselina Tomova | North American Shore Birds | Monotype | 2014 |
| Rhonda Pelley | 6 of Swords | Photo collage | 2018 |
| Jennifer Morgan | St. John’s 1912/2017 | Etching with chine colle coloured mulberry, and collage of postcards on mulberry paper | 2017 |
| Hazel Eckert | Studio Wall, Cast Shadows – October 7, 2017 at 4:49 PM ed. 1/3 | Archival inkjet print on Epson Display Transparency | 2017 |
| Jeremy Brake | Man in Rocky Harbour | Digital photography | 2017 |
| Barry Buckle | These Ties Won’t Bind | Contemporary quilt: 180 100% sild designer neckties, linen with adorned bottons, polyfil and bleached cotton backing | 2018 |
| Susan Furneaux | #momsboy #hillbillychic # | Natural dye, hand embroidery, rooster skin, sheep teeth, photo transfer, metal thread | 2018 |
| Jean Wills | Capelin | Oil on canvas | 2018 |
| Gerald Vaandering | Erratic Rocks on the Barrens | Oil on canvas | 2016 |
| Toby Rabinowitz | Big Sky | Acrylic on canvas | 2014 |
| Tia Connolly | Tiffany | Watercolour | 2018 |
| James Miller | Midnight in the Gardens of Stone | Oil on aluminum panel | 2018 |
| Malin Enstrom | Is I | Photograph | 2018 |
| Shelby Millwater | This is Still a Work in Progress – diptych | Oils and Gesso on canvas | 2016 |
| Greg Bennett | Brown Hare | Oil on birch panel | 2015 |
| April White | On the Bus on June 27th, 2015 | Watercolour | 2015 |
| Anita Singh | Habitats I | Collograph and monotype | 2018 |
| Emily Pittman | Steep Lines, Steady Levels, #2 | Oil and house paint on canvas | 2017 |
| Mike Gough | Time & Geography #7 | Acrylic, pastel & graphite on cradled panel | 2017 |
| Carol Bajen – Gahm | Encounters, Duntara & Keels #4 | Mixed Media: pigment stick, encaustic, Sumi ink | 2017 |