PERMANENT COLLECTION

The Acquisition Committee that meets four times per year, headed by Martha Sturdy and members Michael Audain, Tom Gautreau and Kim Spencer-Nairn, continues to move the Permanent Collection forward in a strategic fashion. A guiding principal of this body is to acquire works by artists from British Columbia that have achieved national-international recognition. Each purchase or donation offer is carefully considered to ensure that it represents a major signature work by the artist under review and can be effectively deployed in the Permanent Collection galleries over time. The Museum is grateful for the establishment of the Audain Art Acquisition Fund in 2020, which has provided the Director & Chief Curator and Gail and Stephen Jarislowsky Curator with opportunities to seek out both historic and contemporary pieces for review by the Committee. Similarly, purchases made through the generosity of the Audain Foundation as well as Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa continue to benefit the Museum’s growing holding of BC art.