2011 Teen Scholarship
Roselina Hung Roselina Hung is a Vancouver-based visual artist with a Masters in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK, and her Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of British Columbia. She also spent a year on exchange at L'École Nationale SupÊrieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and can be found in private collections around the world. She has taught at Central Saint Martins and Arts Umbrella and recently finished a residency at The Banff Centre. www.roselinahung.com
Paul Wong Best known as a pioneer of video art, Paul Wong is a master of large-scale installations, performance and sitespecific media art events. Recent projects include Hungry Ghosts for the 2003 Venice Biennale, Everybody Is Somebody in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, The Hotel for the grand opening of the Waldorf in Vancouver, and the extraordinary series 5 staged during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Represented by the Winsor Gallery, Vancouver and Vtape, Toronto. He is also the Artistic Director of On Main (On The Cutting Edge Production Society) currently curating 10 Seconds, a yearlong series of video artworks exhibited on the Canada Line subway system and You Tube. 10 Seconds is co-presented by InTransitBC and commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program with the support of Vancouver 125 and the participation of the Government of Canada. www.5.paulwongprojects.com. www.vtape.org. www.youtube.com/offonmain
James Nizam James Nizam (Canadian, b. 1977) is a Vancouver artist who graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2002. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions at L’Espace F (Matane), Galerie Art Mur (Montreal), Birch Libralato (Toronto), Or gallery (Vancouver), Gallery Jones (Vancouver), Scalo | Guye (Los Angeles), Griffen Photography Museum (Boston), and Christophe Guye Galerie (Zurich). Most recently acquired for the Bank of Montreal Collection, his work is also included in private collections in Canada, the United States and Europe, and has been reviewed or published by Flash Art, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, The New Yorker and The Globe & Mail. James Nizam is represented by: Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto, and Gallery Jones, Vancouver. www.birchlibralato.com www.galleryjones.com
Jorden Blue & David James Doody Jorden Blue & David James Doody are both graduates from the University of British Columbia in Critical and Creative Studies. Although each artist offers a uniquely individual approach to the discourse of visual arts, they share a common focus on the materialism of cultural codification. Their combined individual practices have been heavily influenced by world travel and the cross pollination of mass media, ritual and fetishistic cultures. Their practice moves freely between new media, sculpture, and painting. “As a collaborative team for the past nine years, we believe that communication has been the foundation of our artistic relationship. A common thread that can be traced throughout our work is that of collage. By sampling freely from a multitude of different sources, we are able to access unlimited individual histories, societal contexts and cultural symbols. For us, collage is more than just cut and paste, it is an immediate sense of being; it is our way of participating in the re-contextualization of our unfolding culture.� Through their open processes of art-making they allow happenstance to regurgitate cultural intuition in an act of artistic survival. www.twoartists.net
Toni Latour Toni Latour is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, Canada. She works in video, sound, photography, installation, text-based work, drawing and performance art. Latour received her BFA from the University of Windsor in 1998 and her MFA from the University of Western Ontario in 2000. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1994 and has received numerous grants and awards in support of her practice. Latour's work is included in several catalogues and publications by Artspeak, The Burnaby Art Gallery, PaperWait, Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art, MIX Magazine and Border Crossings. Her art is held in both public and private collections, including the Portrait Gallery of Canada and the Surrey Art Gallery. Toni Latour teaches Media Art at Capilano University in British Columbia. www.tonilatour.com
Margaret Dragu Margaret Dragu works in video, installation, web & print publications, and performance art. Her performances span relational, durational, interventionist and community-based practices. Dragu's current project "VERB WOMAN: a discreet dictionary" is currently on tour to Berlin, Belfast and London. www.ladraguasladyjustice.blogspot.com www.verbwoman.wordpress.com
Aidan Hanlon My name is Aidan Hanlon and I have been drawing since the dawn of man. I started the trend that we now know as “cave drawings”. I invented hieroglyphs and I even led the renaissance art movement before burrowing in the ground for several hundred years, only to emerge as a 1993 babychild in the form as what you know to be a human boy. Quickly rediscovering my artistic prowess, I was attracted to a more abstract approach, indulging in the mediums of finger-paints and papier-mâché. Over the past 18 years of my development I have found a fondness for optical illusions and the wonders of ink and acrylics. Artist’s Statement In my artwork I try to represent the impossibly possible. Inspired by the world of my dreams and the universe that contains us, I focus mainly on creating what has not yet been experienced by our world. I have no preference when it comes to medium, though I have recently been exploring collage and water colour. My work relies heavily on the use of continuous line, leading the eye into a trap known as illusion. I draw what I see behind closed eyes, what I feel but cannot touch; I draw the unknown realm of my imagination.
Alison HunMin Seong Growing up in many different places, Alison Seong has walked through various experiences and obstacles. On Dec.7th, 1995, she was born in Seoul, Korea. Then in 2001, her family and she moved to Incheon. On Dec.25th, 2006, at age of 11, she and her mother came to Canada. At first, she could not speak English, therefore in school, unlike other subjects, art was like a friend to her. Also her teacher Mr. Skipper always encouraged her and the encouragement stimulated her artistic senses. Previously, art was an interesting toy and from 2011 art has altered into an adventure, a route for her future. Artist’s Statement Painting and photos are big parts of my life; without them, I would have pertained in a tedious life. I take pleasure in illustrating myself with these art tools. A gallery or a museum helps me work with all my senses. The artworks show other’s perspectives on objects. When I look at a piece of art that draws near to my heart, I get motivated to create art. I believe that an artist should illustrate indirect beauty which makes viewers’ hearts move whether it is an emotion of a shock, joy or sorrow.
Jimmy Ke Jimmy Ke was born in the year 1995 and he has practiced art for over ten years. Jimmy has participated in several artistic projects and his artwork has been exhibited in Zhong Xing Center and Burnaby Art Gallery. Jimmy currently lives in Burnaby. He specializes in painting and drawing; recently he has also experimented with sculpture. Artist’s Statement As the ages pass institutions are swept aside. All of our achievements crumble under the weight of time. Carried away like dust in the wind, but art is eternal. Within every form of intelligence no matter where in the universe there will be some sort of art coexisting with it. This art might vary from one sentience to the other, but there is one similarity that connects them all. All artistic pursuit converges to one point. A point pursued by all who have a hunger to know. A point which people seek to explain rather than understand‌ this point is space.
Nora Kelly Nora Kelly is a grade 10 student at Lord Byng Mini School. Besides participating in the Buschlen Mowatt Scholarship program, she has done previous art classes at Arts Umbrella, Basic Inquiry and has worked with the Museum of Vancouver youth council. She enjoys brand new fine liners, making smoothies, playing various instruments and going on adventures. She does not particularly enjoy writing bios about herself in the third person. Artist’s Statement This Camera Obscura piece plays with the concept of space, as well as time and light by taking these concepts in their most literal, scientific forms and building on them through metaphors When we perceive a space, our visual sense is dominant and my project touched on this by having the camera obscura’s eye-tricks play a large role in the piece. The hour glass being projected upside down, with the sand filtering upwards, the broken glass and the sand symbolize our idea of “time” being broken, or “shattered”. The sand and glass also give an idea of time in another way. Glass is just sand that’s been melted, and therefore the piece looks at the lifespan (birth and death) of time. The box the camera obscura is in represents a “space”, because you cannot have time if it does not pass in a place. Space and time depend on each other, and this piece tries to find meaning in that. What is space? Space is time.
Minjoo Kim Minjoo Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. After graduating middle school in Korea, she moved to Canada in 2010. She started drawing and painting since she was very young. Although her love is drawing and painting, she is looking forward to experimenting and trying something new. Artist’s Statement I like the feeling, sometimes satisfaction, which I get from my works when I finish certain projects. I think that is what makes me continue doing art. I usually get inspired out of nowhere; I have been inspired from a drummer in a TV show, from mist while taking a shower, from a math textbook, and many other daily actions. I believe that we are always in a space and we are standing on the space right now. We are not close but not too far from space.
Isabel Mink Izzy Mink is a student attending West Point Grey Academy and is currently in grade 10. Considering herself a “renaissance man�, she aspires to apply that innovative mindset to all that she does. She is passionate about anything to do with art: fine arts, music, acting, dancing etc. (as well as sciences) and she revels in all experiences and opportunities in her life. One of these experiences included a recent outreach trip to Sikirar, Kenya, which in part inspired her exhibition piece and has changed her perspective and outlook on the space between ideas, morals, and ways of thinking. Artist’s Statement Ideas are constantly active in my mind, and I find that art is the best way that I can communicate these ideas to others. Inspiration comes from anything that makes me feel any strong emotions towards it. These can be images, photographs, memories, dreams, essences, music, organic beauty in nature, and human emotion. The way I see art, is as something that an individual feels innately, and, along with passion, is the creation of something that communicates the beauty of whatever the artist feels, however they happen to see it.
Khorshid Naderi-Azad Khorshid Naderi-Azad was born on December 2nd, 1993 in Tehran, Iran. She attended Farzanegan Middle School (administered under the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents) in Tehran before moving with her family to Vancouver, Canada in 2007. In Vancouver she attended Prince of Wales Secondary School for a year before being selected for the Mini School enrichment program. She has pursued different genres of art due to her special interest as well as other extracurricular activities and community work. Khorshid is currently graduating high school and is planning on starting her post-secondary studies next year in architecture. Artist’s Statement It usually starts from a moment that raises a growing voice in my head, giving me a sense that my ever-sorestless thoughts seem to be forming a new opinion. My pieces are stories that I have heard or come across and have now retold in words that reflect my personal take. My main goal in creating the art that I do is shaping my own identity as a person, an artist and a free thinker. As I explore different themes and mediums, I yearn to learn more about myself through how I approach and respond to certain concepts.
Kristal Ng Kristal Ng is currently 17 years old and she has been drawing ever since she was young because of her love of art. She has been enrolled in Vancouver Technical Secondary’s art and drama class for over 4 years. In addition, she has been accepted into Summer Visions, Vancouver Film School 2 Day and Art Institute’s S.W.E.A.T Program for 2 years. This is her first time in the Buschlen Mowatt program and so far she loves it. Artist’s Statement I always have been passionate about human rights and art. Because of that, this project shows people invading space, such as wars, invasions and etc. The empty blank s shaped as humans, represents the space that the victims could have obtained if the attackers were not there. In addition, this space represented the peace and love they could have had.
Christine Park Early morning on April 18, 1994, Christine JiMin Park was embraced by her family of artists. She has always been inspired and encouraged by her artist father and her historian mother. Her fourth birthday present was a set of crayons and a sketchbook. She ran out of her materials in a few weeks and that was the beginning of her journey. Traveling and roaming around numerous galleries and museums, Park developed her passion in art and decided to chase the life of an art specialist at a young age. Today Park resides in Coquitlam, Canada, exploring the world of art and pursuing her goal as an art specialist at Sotheby’s. Artist’s Statement When I was still young, a telephone booth was my second home. With my parents’ absence due to their work, I spent most of the time alone. Instead of going to playgrounds with my friends, however, I have always preferred to stay in a telephone booth beside a corner store. I believed telephone booth was everyone’s personal space where people can let out burden off of him or her through the tangled telephone line, just like a confession stand. In this isolated, vacant, and small space, people will get to share their stories, and that is what is created out of nothing.
Jeannie Rhyu Jeannie Rhyu has loved art ever since the first time she held a paint brush. Born in Seoul, Korea in 1995, she is now a grade 10 student at Crofton House School. She has been an ambitious student in the Buschlen Mowatt Scholarship Programs for two years. Jeannie dedicates many hours to creating art. In her fifteen years of artistic adventure, she has created several mixed media pieces, short films and installations, often experimenting with various media. Some of her work expresses her personal beliefs and others reflect her playful, experimental spirit. Artist’s Statement Art is a palette of communication, adventure, self-improvement and pleasure. It allows me to express my feelings effectively without limits. I always strive to widen my aesthetic horizon by experimenting with different media and creating art pieces in different genres. I am familiar with acrylic, oil and water paints on canvas, paper, wood and other unique surfaces. I also frequently create mixed media art, using recycled objects. To refine my artistic skills, I practice traditional painting and drawing. These technical exercises help me to create accurate representational art. Since art is not only about realism, I also express myself through abstract works by using intricate patterns, bold colors and symbolism. With every work of art that I complete, I further appreciate the importance of a sound creative method. I hope to continue improving myself until I reach my full potential as an artist.
Siah Seong I am Siah Seong. I was inspired by my mother who is an artist. She taught me what the art is. I won several art competitions in Korea and I fled to Canada to develop my artistic view. I desire to be a businessman in the art industry. I tried out for the Buschlen Mowatt scholarship program in 2009 and fortunately was elected to participate in the 2010 show. Now because I know that this program is an excellent way of exploring the different artistic world, I challenged myself to attend it again. Artist’s Statement Art is a very wide and abstract subject to many people; some people even think a dot is an art but some people don’t. For me, I think the art is that if the philosophy of the artist is contained in work, then it is an art. If I plot a dot without thinking then it is just a dot but when I have my thought within that small dot, then that becomes an art. I personally love to draw a portrait containing a certain emotion. I believe that a person’s facial expression can reveal her life.
James Yan As a high school student, James is constantly imagining the space around him. He enjoys playing with what could be possible – changing the spaces around him and experimenting with different materials. The development of James’ art is influenced by mixing his interests in information technology and biology, along with inspirations from everyday life like the gossip he shares with his friends to the cloth he recently bought on sale. As he matured and shifted, his work turned to something that can record his mind’s eye and his life in a completely other way. Artist’s Statement With so much space around us, we often ignore the space within ourselves. From our skin to our internal organs, we rarely think about how amazing our bodies are, and we usually take our body for granted. The lung is the one of the essential components of life, and most people know only the surface of it. By taking transparencies and forming a lung shape, people can then see the space inside the surface. Along with sound and video, the full potential and use of the lungs are exposed in an “outer” space.