TORONTO — Artists from Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and B.C. were honoured Tuesday with 2014 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Winners of the $25,000 prize include Toronto sculptor Kim Adams and multidisciplinary visual artist Max Dean and Montreal photographer Angela Grauerholz and performance artist Raymond Gervais.
Ottawa painter Carol Wainio and Vancouver media artist Jayce Salloum are also winners.
Ottawa curator Brydon Smith is being recognized for Outstanding Contribution.
Sandra Brownlee, a weaver from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won the Saidye Bronfman Award, which honours excellence in fine crafts.
“Each year, we honour some of Canada’s finest contemporary artists and artistic contributors,” said Governor General David Johnston, in a release.
“The work of these artists in the visual and media arts is well known and respected in Canada and abroad. I am pleased to honour each of the laureates for their achievements. On behalf of all Canadians, I thank them for their creativity and hard work.”
The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts were created in 1999 by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.
Johnston will present the awards — which include a medallion produced by the Royal Canadian Mint — at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on March 26.
A special exhibition of selected works by this year’s recipients will run at the National Gallery of Canada from March 28 to July 6.
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