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Kablusiak wins 2023 Sobey Art Award grand prize
Canada’s preeminent contemporary arts award recognizes artist for practice that confounds old categories and points to new imaginaries.
Kablusiak is the grand winner of the 100,000 CAD 2023 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent prize for contemporary visual arts. The announcement was made Saturday evening by 2022 Sobey Art Award winner Divya Mehra during a special celebration at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). The remaining shortlisted artists—Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Michèle Pearson Clark, Anahita Norouzi, Séamus Gallagher—will each receive 25,000 CAD.
The Sobey Art Award recognizes Canadian visual artists at a critical juncture in their careers and whose work reflects upon and speaks of our contemporary moment nationally and globally. Kablusiak is a multidisciplinary Inuvialuk artist and curator who uses Inuk ingenuity to create work in a variety of mediums, including lingerie, white flour, soapstone, felt, acrylic paint, and words. The artist’s work explores dis/connections and family and community ties within the Inuit diaspora, as well as the impact of colonization on Inuit expressions of gender and sexuality, on health and wellbeing, and on daily life. Kablusiak was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and they are currently based in Calgary, Alberta.
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Veteran and artist Barry John MBE has been chosen from 11 finalists as the overall winner if the British Contemporary Art Awards 2025.
The awards are run by British Contemporary Art, a curated website featuring the best of British painters and paintings, set up by the Harbour Gallery’s Mark David Hatwood FRSA.
Barry’s work Celtic Roots was shortlisted in the final. It has been named the winner by public vote.
Read More: https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/24939508.barry-john-mbe-wins-british-contemporary-art-award/
THE National Arts in Hospitals Network (NAHN) is celebrating success after scooping a top accolade at the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Health and Well-being Awards.
Hosted by NHS Charities Together, NAHN was named the winner of the Arts and Health Award 2024 in recognition of its pioneering National Health Stories project marking 75 years of the NHS.
Led by British actor, playwright and director, Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE, National Health Stories invited NHS staff from 19 NHS trusts across England to tell their stories of working for the organisation through different art forms, including music, poetry, painting and writing.
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This Frieze week proved it’s high time to take AI art seriously — and 9 AI artists to know
Will 2024 mark the year AI art went mainstream? Each year, the Frieze London Artist Award gives its winner the chance to debut an ambitious commission at the fair. This time, the spotlight was on Lawrence Lek. His playable game and hard-hitting video – though at five minutes, too long for the fleeting attention spans of most fairgoers – follows the absurdist story of an AI ‘carebot’ who wrestles with an uncanny kind of human self-doubt.
Ben Luke, host of The Art Newspaper’s podcasts and former Standard critic, describes Lek as “neither a blind evangelist nor a sceptic” of new technologies. It’s fitting, then, that his installation leaves you lingering somewhere between fascination and fear.
