Clockwise from top left: University of Toronto Art Centre/Justina M. Barnicke Gallery; Sara Hartland-Rowe's Summer, one panel of the work that put Hartland-Rowe in the running for the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award; David Heffel, president of Heffel Fine Art Auction House. Photo: Peter Holst. Courtesy of Heffel; Douglas Coupland, Towers, 2014. Courtesy Daniel Faria Gallery. Photo: MOCCA.
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Sara Hartland-Rowe has been selected as the visual-arts finalist for the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. Hartland-Rowe was nominated for Travellers, a public artwork consisting of a series of enamel-on-aluminum panels in the Dartmouth bridge terminal. Finalists receive a $3,000 prize, and are considered for the grand prize of $22,000. The winner will be announced in November.
The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre, both in Toronto, have been awarded a $39,000 grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage. The grant will be directed towards storage of the four collections managed by the galleries: the collection of University College, Hart House Collection, University of Toronto Art Collection and Malcove Collection. Taken together, these collections comprise more than 7,000 works.
Heffel Fine Art Auction House has announced that they will be expanding into international post-war and contemporary art at their fall auction. This increasingly international and contemporary focus marks a shift for the auction house, best-known for dealing with historical Canadian work.
Vancouver artist Douglas Coupland has begun travelling around the country, 3-D scanning participants for the project 3DCanada. The project was launched to promote the expansion of Quebec-based department-store Simons, and scanning sessions will take place at Simons locations in six Canadian cities.
