Friday evening the 3rd Annual Capture Photography Festival got underway with an opening exhibition at the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall. The show featured the finalists for the inaugural Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, presented by Presentation House Gallery.
The Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize is a new award, supported by Rogers Communications to recognize Mr Lind’s retirement after 45 years of service with the company as well as his passion for Vancouver’s art scene. The call was put out to local post-secondary institutions to invite instructors to nominate students in their visual arts programs for the Lind Prize. Of the 20+ nominees, a short list of 8 students were selected by the jury, with each of them presenting their works at the Capture Festival Opening event.
The shortlisted students are Kerri Flannigan, Emily Geen, Anna Shkuratoff, Brandon Poole of UVIC, Polina Lasenko of Emily Carr University, and Curtis Grahauer, Vilhelm Sundin and Lauren Tsuyuki of Simon Fraser University.
The Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist of 2016 is Vilhelm Sundin (photo, right), who receives $5000 towards the production of a new work to be shown in 2017 at the future Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver
The Lind Prize nominees show runs at the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall until Friday April 8th.