Winners of Surrey’s Arts 2020 juried art competition have been announced.
This year’s exhibition of winning entries will be shown online only, on the Arts Council of Surrey’s website (artscouncilofsurrey.ca) starting Friday (July 3), in a summer-long showcase typically held at Surrey Art Gallery.
Entry fees were waived this year, and prizes have been awarded by three jury members in five categories.
“We had more than 100 artists enter this year, and more than 230 works of art,” said arts council president Carol Girardi.
The five winning entries are from Lorena Krause (in the Painting category), Paul Stilwell (Drawing, Mixed Media), Karen Kroeker (Sculptures and Fibre Art), Jonathan Lee (Photography) and Michele Broadfoot (Digital, Performative and New Media Art).
The full list of Arts 2020 winners is posted below.
Meantime, the arts council’s “Together apART” visual art exhibition was recently published online and in the organization’s monthly Spotlight newsletter. Wendy Schmidt’s “The Couple” earned first place, with Eileen Fong’s “Joy In Quiet Times” in second and Rosita Herat’s “Living In A Bubble But Connected and Staying Apart” in third. Elizabeth Hollick was given honourable mention for her “Love Hearts Falling at 7pm,” and Andre Paulhus’ “Poppies” earned the Peoples Choice Award.
ARTS 2020 WINNERS
Painting
First Place: Lorena Krause, Cellular Neural Network
Second Place: Paul Stilwell, Tires Out
Third Place: Dione Dolan, Safe Haven
Honourable Mention: Paul Eccles, Covid Wholesale
Honourable Mention: Shannon Harvey, Medusa Rising
Honourable Mention: Denise Paluck, Beach Creature
Drawing, Mixed Media
First Place: Paul Stilwell, Red Cedar Strength
Second Place: Kanwaljit Kaur Kundhal, Obsession With Abstraction 1
Third Place: Roxsane K. Tiernan, Dark Waters
Honourable Mention: Hazel Breitkreutz, Isabella
Honourable Mention: Linda Pearce, Disorientation
Honourable Mention: Daniel Tibbits, Sacred Ecology
Sculptures and Fibre Art
First Place: Karen Kroeker, A Vision
Second Place: Lenka Suchanek, Meganeura
Third Place: Carla Paterson, Wish I Could Hug You
Honourable Mention: Yulia Boriskina, Keep What Matters
Honourable Mention: Ewe Brzezinski, Inner
Photography
First Place: Jonathan Lee, Midtown Truck Service Inc.
Second Place: Francisco Molina, CORVID-19 Lockdown 3
Third Place: Jesse Vance, Proof-CF014874-Bench
Honourable Mention: Julia Chang, Corner
Honourable Mention: Kathy Burton, Tranquility
Honourable Mention: Lynne Kelman, Fille Dans Le Train
Digital, Performative and New Media Art
First Place: Michele Broadfoot, Fluffing My Feathers
Second Place: Naomi Moore, Were In This Together
Third Place: Hafeez Mian, Barco
Honourable Mention: Helmut Gruntorad, Haleakala Volcano, Maui Hawaii