Gordon Boyd Wins 2025 RBC Award for Glass

Gordon Boyd, Journal Entry Nov 8 2024, 2024, blown glass, 51 x 9cm. Photo courtesy of the artist. Collection of the artist.

2025 RBC Award for Glass

September 20, 2026 – January 11, 2026
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 28, 2025, 2 – 4pm

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery is delighted to announce that Gordon Boyd of Oakville, ON is the winner of the 2025 RBC Award for Glass. Boyd will receive a $10,000 prize, which will support the development of his career at this critical time. An opening reception presenting the award and celebrating the exhibition featuring this year’s winner and finalists will be held on Sunday, September 28, 2025, at 2pm. All are welcome to attend!

The only national award for emerging glass artists in Canada, the RBC Award is a prestigious honour. Presented through an ongoing partnership with The RBC Foundation, winners and finalists of the award are recognized as the best and brightest of the future of Canadian glass art.

We are pleased to celebrate this year’s RBC Award runner-up, Nadira Narine (Toronto, ON), who will receive a $5,000 prize. We also celebrate the achievement of the finalists for this year’s award: Samwell Guertin (Montréal, QC), Em McDonald (Oakville, ON), and Jérémie St-Onge (Montréal, QC). Each finalist will receive a prize of $1,000 to further their practice.

The 2025 RBC Award for Glass was juried by Benjamin Kikkert, Cheryl Wilson-Smith, and Franklin Silverstone. On the jurying process, they state: “We were thrilled by the exceptional quality and impressive number of applicants for this year’s prestigious RBC Award for Glass. Artists from across the country were well represented, making the decision an especially difficult one. We are truly grateful to have had the opportunity to view such outstanding work and deeply appreciate the time and effort each applicant put into their submissions.”

For more information about the RBC Award for Glass, visit our website.

About the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery is a long-standing site of excellence and a destination for contemporary art for international tourists and regional citizens. We present critically acclaimed exhibitions that challenge ideas and perceptions of the definitions of art, craft, and design today. The Gallery is a relevant and dynamic cultural organization providing supportive education programs to people from across the region. Using exhibitions as a starting point, individuals develop arts vocabulary and appreciation and cultivate confidence in their interpretation of contemporary artworks. For more information, visit: www.theclayandglass.ca

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