Art touches us emotionally and engages us intellectually, creating a reaction and a response. Science shows that art is important for our mental and physical wellbeing.
The National Gallery of Canada remained a peripatetic institution well into the 20th century, not finding a permanent home until the completion of Moshe Safdie's building in the late 1980s.
As the recipient of the inaugural Lacey Prize, the not-for-profit centre Hamilton Artists Inc has chosen to use the prize for practical improvements, artist support and programming.
Renowned for her photographs, films, writings and photobooks, Moyra Davey imbues her work with personal narration and memory alongside text and influences of literary figures.
While continuing to create paintings on a large scale, these artists sought to go beyond the practice of the earlier Abstract Expressionists and came to be associated with post-painterly abstraction.