Past Award Winners
2019-2020
Untitled, Russna Kaur
Acrylic, oil, latex, cut canvas and sawdust on canvas & latex paint, 126" x 530"
Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre
Russna Kaur holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo (2013) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2019). In her paintings, drawings, collages and assemblages, Kaur evokes spatial and figurative illusions with a visual intensity that parallels her interest in secular and religious spectacles of celebration, mourning and consumption. A new work by Kaur was created for the lobby of the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre. Kaur painted a bold and energetic mural on the wall layered with two of her mixed media canvases while the building was closed to the public and staff access was limited due to the pandemic.
2018
Biology, Levi Nelson
Oil on canvas, 46" x 184"
UBCH, Koerner Pavilion
2017
A Soft Place to Land, Garvin Chinnia
Oil on plexi, 48" x 78"
VGH, Joseph & Rosalie Segal & Family Health Care Centre
2016
Bison, Liz Carter
Photo transfer on aluminum, 60" x 72"
VGH, Jim Pattison Pavilion
2015
Adaptivity, Klaudia Niwa
Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 96"
GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre
2014
Settlement, Richard Heikkilä-Sawan
Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 96"
VGH, Leon Judah Blackmore Pavilion
2013
Above and Beyond, Chad Durnford
Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 38"
GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre
2012
Galiano Forest, Taralee Guild
Acrylic on canvas, 96" x 48"
UBCH, Detwiller Pavilion
2011
Darwin's Surfaces, Marten Sims
Colour photographs, 3 x 37" x 37"
VGH, Jim Pattison Pavilion
2010
Same Soup Different Flavour: 100 Pairs of Converse Shoes, Krista Jahnke
Digital colour, inkjet print, 8" x 8" each
VGH, Jim Pattison Pavilion