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CBC Arts: Canada's national portraiture prize is looking to gain mass appeal for its 2025 edition

“In March, the prize released its first-ever book, a 20-year retrospective, as part of that effort to get in front of more people. One of the artists featured was 2023's winner, Shaun Downey. Downey is familiar with the world of portrait awards. In 2010, he was accepted into the United Kingdom's national portrait award — then called the BP Portrait Award — where his work was hung in the National Portrait Gallery in London.” —Chris Dart

Ottawa Citizen: Portrait of a country — a new book captures these faces

“I appreciate that the stories I imagine about the subjects of those portraits aren’t obvious in the paintings. Anyone looking at this book would find other portraits striking and see some of their own stories reflected at them. That is the magic of art: every single person receiving it has their own way of interpreting it. There is no right or wrong way to appreciate a painting.” —Brigitte Pellerin


Q with Tom Power: How portraiture helped artist Gordon Shadrach tell his cancer story

“In his new exhibit, the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, Shadrach unpacks his cancer diagnosis and the year of isolation that followed it. He sits down with Tom Power to tell us how illness and recovery affected him and his art.”


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