I won the Sobey Art Award last Thursday!
Since then I have received so may warm congratulations and sweet, supportive messages, and I really do feel incredibly lucky and thankful. I especially wanted to acknowledge and thank:
the Sobey family
the 2010 Sobey Curatorial Panel: Grant Arnold, Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery; Jen Budney, Associate Curator, Mendel Art Gallery; Philip Monk, Director, Art Gallery of York University; Lesley Johnstone, Curator, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; David Diviney, Curator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
the 5 other, incredibly talented, shortlisted artists:
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Brendan Fernandez
Brendan Tang
Patrick Bernatchez
my musical collaborators:
Greg Goldberg
Linton
my art dealer:
Jessica Bradley
my technical collaborator:
Terence Cooke
the greatest friends in the world:
Karen Azoulay
Peggy Messing
the cities of Winnipeg and Montreal, and all of Canada’s artist-run centres.
Deep Thanks! xo
Read the details in the Globe and Mail.