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.
Arriving in Canada in 1875, Charlotte Schreiber became a pioneer and role model for Canadian women artists and is credited for introducing the Realist movement to the country's art community.