2000 Rick Burns
Essentially, I’m concerned about the body as subject matter. And primarily the absence of the body. Using the body blatantly just seemed a little too obvious. – Rick Burns, 2000
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1999 Suzanne Hill
…but I find it difficult to choose words that will speak with the same intensity as a drawing, painting or construction … – Suzanne Hill, 1999
1998 Roméo Savoie
I say this for the sole reason that I want to make it clear that making art is a very difficult profession because it deals with what is not obvious, in what is hidden in one’s emotions, it deals with life itself and everyone knows that life is unpredictable, that it reveals its secrets bit by bit, that nothing is clear, ever. – Roméo Savoie, 1998
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2010 Scholarship Jury
Susan Vida Juda Susan Vida Judah is a celebrated tapestry artist currently working from her studio in Upper Kingsclear. A graduate of the Hereford School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London England, Ms. Judah emigrated to Canada in 1976. She has served as the Head of the Textile Department of the[…]
1997 Freeman Patterson
This awareness now forms the central core of my work. The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognise their particularity has become automatic; but seeing, combining and creating them as integrated “wholes”, will remain a life-long challenge. – Freeman Patterson, 1997
The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Annual Special Project Funding
Each year, the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation provides one grant cycle to assist organizations in the promotion and development of visual arts within the province of New Brunswick. The Board of Directors invites concept letters outlining a proposal for funding of up to $10,000. Concept letters should not exceed two pages and should outline the[…]
1996 Marie Hélène Allain
I have always been fascinated with found objects, particularly objects that nature, time or human work has eroded and that wear their history etched in the folds of their skin, so to speak. – Marie Hélène Allain, 1996