The Kingston Prize
The Board of The Kingston Prize Association, and the Jury, have announced the names of the thirty finalists in The Kingston Prize 2017, Canada's portrait competition:
Peter Adams, Creemore ON
Phil Atwood, Toronto ON
James Bentley, Île-Perrot QC
Nicholas Bierk, Toronto ON
Keith Boa, Toronto ON
Brian Burke, Murray Harbour PEI
Michael Carlyle, Windsor ON
Sally Clark, Vancouver BC
Joe Coffey, Victoria BC
Christine Cousineau, Hudson QC
Christienne Cuevas, Kitchener ON
Shaun Downey, Toronto ON
Brian Grison, Victoria BC
Ale Groen, Richmond Hill ON
Janine Hall, Calgary AB
Zoë Hartwick, Vancouver BC
Daniel Hughes, Kingston ON
Phil Irish, Elora ON
Kit King, Curran ON
Yael Lafleur, Kingston ON
Jacques Leveille, Outremont QC
John McDonald, Petty Harbour Maddox Cove NL
Keita Morimoto, Etobicoke ON
Sylvain Nadeau, Drummondville QC
Kae Sasaki, Winnipeg MB
Ian Shatilla, Montreal QC
Jane Tarini, Edmonton AB
Helena Vallée-Dallaire, Val-Morin QC
Dori Vanderheyden, Toronto ON
Leslie Watts, Stratford ON
The Kingston Prize of $20,000, presented by the Haynes Connell Foundation, and two Honourable Mention Awards of $2,000 each, will be awarded during the opening at the Peel Art Gallery on November 4, 2018.
The portraits will be exhibited at the Firehall Theatre, Gananoque ON October 6 to 22, 2017.
The exhibition will then be shown at the Peel Art Gallery in Brampton ON from November 4 until January 2018.
