Eleanor King with works-in-progress in her Halifax studio, July 2014. Photo: Aaron McKenzie Fraser.
Artist Eleanor King, currently based in New York, has been awarded the 2015 Glenfiddich Artist-in-Residence Prize, valued at $20,000. King will spend three months living and working in Dufftown, Scotland, where the Glenfiddich distillery is located.
King will participate in the residency alongside seven international artists. She was selected for the prize from more than 100 Canadian applicants.
Her project will involve living in Dufftown without the use of any technology built before the year 1900.
Previously based in Halifax, King was profiled in Canadian Art’s Fall 2014 issue, where Sarah Fillmore wrote that, “The labour involved in the making of an artwork often gets masked by the polish of the finished product…. Those hours of repetitive work, for King, have resulted in intelligent, seemingly effortless works. One is made to wonder how she makes her works look so easy, so familiar and smartly approachable.”
King’s work has been exhibited at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Eastern Edge Gallery, among other venues. In 2012, King was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award.
Past recipients of the Glenfiddich Artist-in-Residence Prize include Jon Sasaki, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Daniel Barrow, Jillian McDonald and Myfanwy MacLeod.
