The Gillian Lowndes Memorial Award is given to an individual who has demonstrated long-standing achievement, innovation, and recent growth in their artistic discipline. The award was created in 1981 to honour the life and talent of Gillian Lowndes, a promising young Sunshine Coast dancer and vice-president of the Arts Council. Gillian died of cancer in 1981. This year’s recipient is Nadina Tandy, a visual artist living in Gibsons, BC whose breakout 2017 exhibition “Exquisite Corpse” with the late Donna Balma has expanded her work locally and internationally to include solo exhibitions, innovative public art installations, book cover commissions, and a curatorial residency at ART PAWN CO/LATERAL in New York City this past June.
AWARDED 22/23
Photo Credit M. Tandy