Mike Bayne Wins the 2011 Kingston Prize
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at the ROM Until January 29,2012
ROM and the Kingston Arts Council are pleased to announce Mike Bayne
(Kingston, Ontario) as the winner of the 2011 Kingston Prize
Competition, Canada’s only portrait competition, featuring
contemporary paintings and drawings of Canadians by Canadian artists.
Honourable Mentions are awarded to Steven Spazuk (Ville de Léry,
Québec) and Tammy Salzl (Montreal, Quebec).
depth of this year’s submissions,” says Julian Brown, Co-Founder of
the Kingston Prize. “The purpose of our jury is to select winners
based on those exact criteria – quality and depth. Selecting this
year’s winners was not easy, and on behalf of the Prize and Jury, we
wish all the best to the talented artists who submitted their work.”
Weston Foundation of Toronto, the value of this year’s Kingston Prize
has been doubled to $20,000, and Honourable Mention Awards have been
doubled to $2,000 each.
one grand prize winner and two honourable mention awards are selected
from 30 finalists. This year’s jury members are Marina Cutler,
gallery owner and curator, Montreal; Robert Enright, art critic,
Winnipeg and Guelph; Natalka Husar, artist, Toronto.
continue at the ROM until January 29, 2012. A People’s Choice Award
of $1,000, determined by visitors to Museum, will be awarded mid-
December.
2011 Finalists
Pamela Augustino
Daniel Barkley
Michael Bayne
Jeremiah Birnbaum
Brian Boulton
Richard Davis
Christiano De Araujo
Marina Dieul
Francis Fontaine
Sadko Hadzihasanovic
Janine Hall
Roselina Hung
Soraya Hutchinson
Charles Keillor
Gerald Kuehl
William Lazos
Tony Luciani
Eileen MacArthur
Edmund Prior
Steven Rosati
Tammy Salzl
Chantel-Andree Samson
Panagiotis Peter Sarganis
Ewa Scheer
Matthew Schofield
Jay Senetchko
Steven Spazuk
Anna Syperek
Ted Tucker
Sean Yelland
To preview the selected works by each artist, please visit: href= “http:// www.kingstonprize.ca/2011-
GALLERY/gallery_2011.html”>www.kingstonprize.ca.
that began in 2005, with an exhibition in Gananoque, near Kingston.
To be eligible, an entry must be a painting or drawing of a specific
Canadian person, based upon a meeting between artist and subject. The
competition is not limited by age or professional status. From the
entries submitted by artists, a jury selects 30 finalists for the
exhibition, and then selects the winners of the prizes. The main prize
of is presented by the W. Garfield Weston Foundation to the winner
chosen by the jury. In addition there are two Honourable Mentions and
a People’s Choice Prize based on ballots submitted during the
exhibition. The Kingston Prize is organized through the Kingston Arts
Council. For more information on the prize visit “http://www.kingstonprize.ca”> www.kingstonprize.ca.
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