Toronto – January 29, 2013 – The Ontario Arts Foundation is pleased to announce the 2013 winner of the Laura Ciruls Painting Award. The $3,500 award is given annually to recognize an Ontario based mid-career painter.
Toronto artist, Andrew Rucklidge is the recipient of the $3,500 award. Andrew is a Canadian painter who draws on an array of influences that range from the 15th century splashed ink painting of Sesshu, the grand panoramas of the American Sublime through to aerial surveillance photographs and diagrams of military conflict. His paintings invoke the aesthetics of Romantic landscape painting and often take the form of grand apocalyptic vistas. His most recent series of works attempts to remodel architectural and interior structures against nascent savage forms and formal crystalline-edged abstraction.
Andrew Rucklidge, “Bituminous Earth”, 2011, oil and archival ink on
toned gessoed linen 30 x 36 inches
Andrew shows widely in Canada and abroad and will be exhibiting at the 2013 Art Paris Fair and London Art Fair. He is currently represented by Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto, Galerie de Bellefeuille in Montreal and the James Freeman Gallery in London. He recently acted as Creative Consultant for “RED” a play about Mark Rothko, performed in 2011 at Canadian Stage. His work is held in collections such as UBS London, Zabludowicz Collection London, Kunstmuseum Gotland Sweden, Soho House Toronto and London, TD Bank Toronto and the Bank of Montreal. He received an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design (London, UK) in 2003 and studied previously at Concordia in Montreal. Andrew currently teaches painting and drawing at OCADU in Toronto.
Le Prix Laura Ciruls de peinture a été établi par Laura Ciruls, graphiste et conceptrice de site internet professionnelle, et aussi une peintre en acrylique et aquarelliste traditionnelle. Grâce à un legs, Laura a créé le Prix Laura Ciruls de peinture afin de reconnaïtre des artistes qui, comme elle, contribuaient au développement de la peinture en Ontario.
Le Fonds Laura Ciruls de peinture est administré par la Fondation des arts de l'Ontario. Le Conseil des arts de l'Ontario gère le processus de sélection du prix.
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Pour plus d'information, veuillez contacter :
Alan Walker, Directeur général, Fondation des arts de l'Ontario
Tel: (416) 969 7413 awalker@arts.on.ca
La Fondation des arts de l'Ontario (FAO) Etablie en 1991 en tant qu'organisme public de bienfaisance, la Fondation verse plus de 2 millions de dollars chaque année en soutien aux arts.
Le Conseil des arts de l'Ontario(CAO) est le principal organisme de financement des activités artistiques professionnelles pour la Province de l'Ontario. Depuis 1963, le CAO a joué un rÙle vital dans la promotion et le soutien au développement des arts et des artistes pour la satisfaction et le bénéfice des ontariens.
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