Surrey college grad wins $10K emerging-artist prize from The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver
Surrey-raised artist Simranpreet Anand has gained one other award for her work, this time from one among Canada’s most acclaimed images and media artwork galleries.
At a ceremony in North Vancouver final week, The Polygon Gallery introduced Anand because the winner of this 12 months’s Philip B. Lind Rising Artist Prize, which comes with a $10,000 money and the chance to provide a challenge with the gallery.
Anand, a Sullivan Heights Secondary graduate, was chosen from greater than 50 different award nominees.
For seven years now, the Philip B. Lind Rising Artist Prize has been awarded yearly to an rising B.C.-based artist working in movie, images or video.
Set up view of Simranpreet Anand’s “insatiable needs of a bourgeoisie, 2021,” at The Polygon Gallery’s The Lind Prize. Three woven dhurries. (Picture: Akeem Nermo)
The jury mentioned Anand’s work “reminds us of the expansive prospects of lens-based work in addition to its descriptive potential. In beginning with on a regular basis supplies similar to spices and textiles as topics, she demonstrates the methods wherein on a regular basis objects carry cultural weight in addition to the histories international capitalism. Her skill to translate these pressing narratives into visually luxurious, materially ingenious works provides to their energy.”
In October 2021, Anand was amongst three Canadian “rising artist” award winners, as declared by Ontario’s The Hnatyshyn Basis. The group’s William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Rising Artists have been awarded to Anand together with Dan Cardinal McCartney and Oreka James, every given $5,000 and accolades that include the nationwide award.
Anand has labored at Surrey Artwork Gallery as an engagement facilitator with the Artwork Collectively program. Her work (“Blueprints for Tying a Dastaar”) was proven at Vancouver Artwork Gallery as a part of the “Vancouver Particular: Disorientations and Echo” exhibit in 2021, and likewise in Toronto on the ArtworxTO Bayview Village exhibition web site.
In Anand’s phrases: “My works construct upon my prior explorations of images as a play on how cultural information could be inscribed in an summary object — just like the photographic publicity of tied turbans, or the continuous alternation between stillness and culturally embodied motion. This serves to unpack a few of the analysis that goes into my inventive tasks, notably how photographic course of and materials course of can increase and subvert each other to generate new meanings.”
A bio on her web site says Anand’s artwork apply “interrogates the so-called impartial viewers in multicultural society. To perform this, she makes use of supplies — notably textiles, language, performative gestures, and images —that resonate past the standard artwork gallery context.”
Earlier winners of the Philip B. Lind Rising Artist Prize are Charlotte Zhang (2021), Laura Gildner (2020), Jessica Johnson (2019), Christopher Lacroix (2018), Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes (2017) and Vilhelm Sundin (2016).
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