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The Kingston Prize

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CBC Arts: Hi, Art! Newsletter

“The Kingston Prize exhibition opens Nov. 8 at Toronto’s Arta Gallery. The show will feature works by this year’s finalists, including Caroline Ji. She entered the competition with this piece, Summer in Toronto. As Caroline writes, “The painting began as a portrait of a quiet contemplative moment, but grew to be about the extreme heat in Toronto this summer and the intense light that shined into the room as a result. When the weather is just too hot and the air conditioning provides no relief, the only thing that can be done is sitting still and trying to find inner peace.””

The Telegram: Two NL artists among finalists for national portrait competition

“The aim of The Kingston Prize is to encourage and reward the creation of contemporary portraits by Canadian artists, to promote Canadian artists through competition and, over time, to develop an historical record of Canadians, by Canadians.” — Gary Kean

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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