2018
June 22, 2018. The winner of the 7th annual Eldon and Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize is:
Gillian Willans (nominated by Heather Hamel, Scott Gallery)*
This year the jurors were: Bruno Canadien (Turner Valley, AB); Keith Harder (Camrose, AB) and Portia Priegert (Victoria, BC).
Gillian Willans received an award of $10,000. The two shortlisted artists (Isla Burns and Blaine Campbell) received awards of $1000 each.
May 24 2018. In alphabetical order, the short list for the Eldon and Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize are:
Isla Burns (nominated by Peter Robertson, Peter Robertson Gallery)*
Blaine Campbell (nominated by Catherine Crowston, Art Gallery of Alberta)*
Gillian Willans (nominated by Heather Hamel, Scott Gallery)*
*Scroll down the page to read more about the shortlisted artists.
SAVE THE DATE: There will be a ceremony to announce the winner of the 7th annual Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize (along with The Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize) from 4:30-6:30pm with a short program at 5:05pm on Thursday June 21 at the CKUA Performing Arts Space, Main Floor CKUA Building 9804 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton. Map
May 4, 2018. In alphabetical order, the long list for the Eldon and Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize are:
Isla Burns (nominated by Peter Robertson, Peter Robertson Gallery)
Blaine Campbell (nominated by Catherine Crowston, Art Gallery of Alberta)
Laura Grier (nominated by April Dean, SNAP Gallery)
Terry McCue (nominated by Jenny Wilson-McGrath and Alison Prsa, Art Gallery of St Albert)
Gillan Willans (nominated by Heather Hamel, The Scott Gallery)
September Arrangement, 2015-16, steel and forged steel, 57.5″ x 29.75″ x 17″
Isla Burns
Read more about the Isla Burns’s nominated piece here
Read about who Isla Burns is here
Transient Architectures for New Tomorrows no. 7: Cyclorama, dye sublimation print on microfibre, sandbags, lumber & steel structure, fan, 13.7 x 6 x 2.45 m, 2017
Blaine Campbell
Read more about Blaine Campbell’s nominated piece here
Read about who Blaine Campbell is here
Tu Yele 2016, 2 Color, Screenprint , 22×22
Laura Grier
Read more about the Laura Grier’s nominated piece here
Read more about who Laura Grier is here
Demanding Justice (2017), Acrylic on canvas, 40″ x 60″
Terry McCue
Read more about Terry McCue’s nominated piece here
Read more about who Terry McCue is here
Entrance to Delphi, acrylic and oil on canvas, 30×30 inches, 2017
Gillan Willans
Read more about Gillan Willans’s nominated piece here
Read more about who Gillan Willans is here
The short list of three artists will be announced on or just before May 25, 2018. There will be a ceremony to announce the winner of the 7th annual Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize (along with The Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize) from 4:30-6:30pm with a short program at 5:05pm on Thursday June 21 at the CKUA Performing Arts Space, Main Floor CKUA Building 9804 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton. Map
2017
June 23, 2017. The winner of the 6th annual Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize is Sean Caulfield (nominated by DC3 Art Projects + the Art Gallery of Alberta). Sean Caulfield received a cheque for $10,000. Two shortlisted artists: Paul Bernhardt and Jill Stanton received cheques for $1000.00 each.
This year our three independent jurors were: Jennifer Bowen Allen – artist and indigenous curator residing in Lethbridge; Marcus Miller – curator at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon; and Wendy Todayrk – artist and Print and Paper Facilitator, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff.
Sean Caulfield
May 24, 2017
In alphabetical order, the short list for the Eldon and Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize are:
Paul Bernhardt (nominated by Brenda Barry Byrne, Strathcona Art Gallery@501)
Sean Caulfield (nominated by DC3 Art Projects + the Art Gallery of Alberta)
Jill Stanton (nominated by Angel Karosi , Harcourt House Artist Run Centre)
You can read more about the three artists and their work below.
There will be a ceremony to announce the winner of the 6th annual Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize at 7:15pm on THURSDAY June 22nd at Visual Arts Alberta – CARFAC Project Space (10215 112 Street, 3rd floor, Edmonton, AB T5K 1M7).
2016
Gary James Joynes wins Foote Prize on June 23rd, 2016
The winner of the 5thannual Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize:
GaryJames Joynes (nominated by David Candler of dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton).
The work pictured above is Broken Sound shown at dc3 Art Projects between May 6th – June 13th, 2015. Broken Sound was a large installation composed of four individual single channel HD videos.
Joynes received a cheque for $10,000. Two short listed artists, Shane Golby (nominated by Heather Hamel of Scott Gallery, Edmonton) and Dana Holst (nominated by Kristy Trinier of the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton) each received cheques for $500.00. The independent jurors for this award were: Anamaria Mendez: Fort McMurray, Troy Patenaude: Canmore and Shauna Thompson: Calgary.
Short Biography of Gary James Joynes:
Gary James Joynes is Edmonton-based sound and visual artist who performs at international music events around the world as Clinker. His sound and visual installation works have been presented at dc3 Art Projects, Harcourt House, Latitude 53, the Koeffler Centre for the Arts, and the 2013 Biennial of Contemporary Art at the AGA.
Clinker has presented Live Cinema performances throughout Canada and internationally at sound art and new media festivals, and he has held a residency at the Banff Centre from which his Frequency Paintings work developed. His work has been commissioned for (and toured with) the International Leonard Cohen Festival, and he has released a full-length audio work on the Los Angeles Sound Art Label Dragon’s Eye Recordings.
Gary’s work blends the beauty and physicality of sound, by combining auditory and visual elements in both live performance, and in rigorous and emotional photo and video installation works.
In 2015 (for work exhibited in 2014): Julian Forrest
In 2014 (for work exhibited in 2013): Brenda Draney
In 2013 (for work exhibited in 2012): Paul Freeman
In 2012 (for work exhibited in 2011): Arlene Wasylynchuk