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Downloadable images of the 2011 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts winners and their works

2011 Winners

 (photo: Martin Lipman)
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 (photo: Stephanie Lake/Canadian Press)
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 (photo: Sgt Serge Gouin, Rideau Hall)
© 2011 Office of the Secretary to the Governor General of Canada
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Geneviève Cadieux

 (photo: Martin Lipman)
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 La Voie lactée, 1992, back-lit panel, aluminum case, inkjet digital print on flexible, transluscent canvas, printed on front only, 1/2 editions, 183 x 457 cm. Collection: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Donation by the artist.
(photo: Louis Lussier)
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 Cet après-midi là (enchantement), 2006, photographic print, 290.8 x 466.7 cm.
(Courtesy of the artist)
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Robert Fones

 (photo: Martin Lipman)
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 Negative Thoughts Driven Out of the Mind, 1994, oil on canvas, 71 x 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
(photo: Peter MacCallum)
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 Leviathan #1, 2008, colour photo on aluminum, 117 x 174 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
(photo: Robert Fones)
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 Rauschenberg S/Grande Parisienne, 1997, colour photograph on aluminum laminate, wood, plywood, 113 x 126 x 25 cm. Private Collection.
(photo: Peter MacCallum)
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Michael Morris

 (photo: Martin Lipman)
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 Colour Research, 1972, painted wood, canoe, video, installation. Collection: Morris/Trasov Archive.
(photo: Courtesy of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery)
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 Untitled, 2009, greyscale, gouache on paper, 38 x 56 cm.
(Courtesy of the artist.)
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David Rimmer

 (photo: Martin Lipman)
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 Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper, 1970, 8 min., 16 mm film
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 Digital Psyche, 2007, 12 min., video
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Barbara Sternberg

 (photo: Martin Lipman)
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 After Nature, 2008, 11 minutes, 16mm film, colour and B&W
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 Beating, 1995, 64 minutes, 16mm film
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Shirley Wiitasalo

 (photo: Martin Lipman)
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 Figure with Blue Arms, 2004, oil on canvas, 101.5 x 81.5 cm. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Purchase, Louise Lalonde Lamarre Memorial Fund.
(photo: MMFA, Christine Guest)
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 Azure, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 147.5 x 117 cm. Courtesy of Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto.
(photo: Toni Hafkenscheid)
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Nancy Tousley, Oustanding Contribution

 (photo: Martin Lipman)
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 Portrait of the artist as a forgotten teen idol by Nancy Tousley in Steven Shearer, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2007.
(Cover image: Steve Payne)
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 So much to see: The films of Mark Lewis by Nancy Tousley in Canadian Art, Summer 2009, Vol. 26, No.2
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Kye-Yeon Son, Saidye Bronfman Award

 (photo: Martin Lipman)
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 Calming, 2006, sterling silver, gold-filled wire, 24k gold plate, 46 x 13 x 12 cm. Private collection.
(photo: Perry Jackson)
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 Nature’s Breath, 2009, copper, enamel, 17 x 17 x 9 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
(photo: Kye-Yeon Son)
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