Janice Weber Wins the BMO 1st Art Student Art Competition
As a follow up to a recent story on our website featuring alumna Janice Weber, St. Peter's College sends sincere congratulations out to Janice on her award win. Janice won in the Saskatchewan category for the 2010 BMO 1st Art Student Art Competition. She received $2,500 as well as an all expenses paid trip to Toronto in October for the opening reception of the exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art which will feature all of the winners' pieces.
Janice's motivation for the piece is outlined below. Be sure to look for a much more detailed article on each of the artists which will be featured in Canadian Art magazine's fall issue.
Sotto Voce was created from a love of mark making and a love of physical, tangible objects. Part of a series of three-dimensional drawings of musical equipment including a paper drum kit and guitar amplifier, it is an homage to non-homogenized sound. This is a microphone that, through recording a human touch, carries the internal voice. Its quiet is the pause between the past and the potential. The real object, for a musician, has an almost everyday practical use; the drawing of this "everyday object" is transformative. The fragility of paper and the softness of pencil belie its industrial source, the drawing itself lowering its voice to say something heard internally. The instruments are outsiders - romantic and sad, made with perfection in mind but each having its own coloured, imagined sound and an unavoidable human wobble. It is for lonely, joyful souls - collars turned up against the cold, and the old sign painter in the city. Have you stopped to watch him? He paints it all by hand.
Click here to view the 2010 BMO 1st Art Student Art Competition winners.
