Nattillingmiut artist Nick Sikkuark was a bold experimenter, an intuitive perfectionist and a sharp yet gentle storyteller who in his art depicts places of his singular imagination.
Finalist Kablusiak’s work conveys the reality of contemporary Inuit lived experiences, engaging with topics such as Inuit displacement and diasporic experience, mental health, gender identity and sexuality.
Finalist Séamus Gallagher’s beguiling art draws our gaze closer into queerly uncanny worlds unburdened by traditional boundaries of gender, sexuality and societal expectations.
With remarkable skill, finalist Anahita Norouzi explores sensitive subjects of human experience and displacement, subtly transposing them into a formal aesthetic where material and technique are charged with...
Informed by grief, loss, resistance and humour, finalist Michèle Pearson Clarke’s photography, video and installation work has created an intimate and immersive visual language for the queer, Black, female...
The 2023 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada presents the works of the three winning artists – Hannah Doucet, Wynne Neilly and Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez.
Artist Paul P. comments on the juxtaposition of his work and prints, drawings and paintings by artists who belonged to the often-overlapping worlds of the homosexual, the dandy and the aesthete.
Capturing the dramatic changes of the interwar period, the works of a group of extraordinary women artists illustrate their great contribution to the visual arts in Canada.