Announcement of Winners: The Ontario Miniature Print Exhibition TOMPE2024

Print London announces the winners of The Ontario Miniature Print Exhibition (TOMPE2024), which is taking place at TAP Centre for Creativity in London, ON from August 21 to September 7.

A national Open Call to professional artists for TOMPE2024 attracted submissions from across Canada. Artists were invited to submit up to four original miniature prints in any printmaking medium or combination of mediums (relief, etching, lithography, silkscreen, digital, 3-D prints) completed after 2021. A panel of three esteemed Jurors selected 251 works by 91 artists to be shown in the exhibition.

At the Opening Reception on Saturday, August 24th at TAP Centre for Creativity, the Jurors presented cash awards to three winning artists for the following works:

First Prize:
Dan Starling
Ratbite, 2024, intaglio
Untitled, 2024, intaglio

Second Prize:
Walter Procksa
Green Over Yellow, 2023, silkscreen
Pink & Blue, 2024, silkscreen
5 Greens, 2024, silkscreen
Red on Top, 2024, silkscreen

Third Prize:
Lisa Neighbour
Junction Parking Lot, 2024, drypoint
Bloor-Bedford Parkette, 2024, drypoint
St. Stephen Church, 2024, drypoint

Two Honourable Mentions were also awarded to:

Mackenzie Browning
Rocky Orbit I, 2024, CMYK screenprint on cotton rag paper
Rocky Orbit II, 2024, CMYK screenprint on cotton rag paper
Rocky Orbit III, 2024, CMYK screenprint on cotton rag paper
Rocky Orbit IV, 2024, CMYK screenprint on cotton rag paper

Shihyun Vision Kim
Memory Motif No. 1, 2024, intaglio with aquatint
Memory Motif No. 2, 2024, intaglio with aquatint
Memory Motif No. 3, 2024, intaglio with aquatint
Memory Motif No. 4, 2024, intaglio with aquatint

Panel of Jurors for TOMPE2024:

David Scott Armstrong, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual art & art History, York University
Mary Reid, Director / Curator, Woodstock Art Gallery
Ruth Skinner, PhD, Executive Director, Forest City Gallery (now appointed as Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator for the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts & Humanities (SASAH) at Western University)

Jurors’ Statement:

The jurors of this year’s TOMPE2024 warmly congratulate both Print London and all of the artists who contributed works to this year’s exhibition. We were impressed by the high calibre of works and the diversity of the submissions, both in terms of their technical virtuosity as well as their breadth of aesthetic and narrative content. All three jurors greatly appreciated the rich discussions inspired by the submissions. The rigour evident across the works inspired our selection process for this final body of work: equally rigorous yet deeply respectful of the time, care, and passion so evidently on view. There are innumerable reasons why an artist scales their work to a certain dimension or scope. One can find across all of the arts distinctions in scale from small to large works (the miniature to the public mural); short and long (the short film to the feature length); compression and expansive (the haiku to the novel). Choice of scale is a key part of the work’s, and artist’s, creative expression. The mini print carries with it associations of the book page, the hand held object and a feeling, perhaps, of intimacy between viewer and artwork. We strove to be responsive to how effectively artists used this format. In reviewing the many individual artworks before us (artists could submit up to four prints) our selections of award recipients were determined less by single stand alone works than by groupings/series which allowed us to see an artist’s sustained vision and intent.

Exhibiting Artists:

Anne Abbass, Siobhán Arnott, Robin Lupita Bain, Luigina Baratto, Derek Berry, Pauline Bradshaw, Peter Braune, Sylvia Bretzloff, David Brown, Mackenzie Browning, Ginny Carnevale, Barb Carr, Susan M. W. Cartwright, Samantha Charette, Carlina Chen, Sandie Collins, Claudine Crangle, Susan Cunningham, Lillianne Daigle, Alain Desgagné, Sophie Desjardins, Janine Duns, Drew Ellwood, Alysa-Beth Engel, Sandi Falconer, Kym Fenlon-Spazuk, Laurence Finet, Amber Forno, Elizabeth Forrest, Brenda Fuhrman, Bev Funnell, Silvie Girard, Jamie-Lee Girodat, Melanie Goguen, Abby Gowland, Colette Gréco-Riddle, Tyler Grieve, Jen Hamilton, Deidre Hierlihy, Jane Holbrook, Villia Jefremovas, SiHyun Vision Kim, McCall Kindt, Denise Lachance, Doris Lamontagne, Stephany Lay, Esther Leelavathy, Patti Lefebvre, Wen Li, Paule Mainguy, Carol Mannas, Gosia Martyniak, Lisa Matthias, Julie McIntyre, Vanessa McKiel, Lauren McKinley Renzetti, Alex Montes, Lisa Neighbour, Donna Nichol, Mary O’Brien, Kurt Pammer, Wendy Parlow, Zane Pate, Susan Perry, Nicole Pettigrew, Laura Peturson, Carrie Phillips Kieser, Walter Procska, Aashna Pujara, Martha Jane Ritchie, Benjamin Robinson, Agustin Rolando Rojas, Madeleine Rousseau, Irina Schestakowich, Reuben Scott, Kathryn Shaw, Patricia Slighte, Dan Starling, Jeff Stellick, St. Marie φ Walker, Svetlana Swinimer, Cindi Talbot, Ana Teodorescu, Jacqueline Tourigny, Ann Unger, Joyce Westrop, Catherine Wild, Doug Williams, Ele Willoughby, Sylvia Wong, Katherine Zarull.

A full colour 120-page Exhibition Catalogue has been published and can be obtained by visiting printlondon.ca

The exhibitions have been generously sponsored by TAP Centre for Creativity, Museum London, Woodstock Art Gallery, The City of London and the London Arts Council through a Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) grant.

PRINT LONDON is a collective of professional London-based visual artists whose practices embrace traditional and contemporary print media and the multiple. We aim to stimulate printmaking in the region through promoting the discussion, production, dissemination and exhibition of print media and working towards establishing a print center in London.

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