A whole year of artist profiles in one (gorgeous) place.
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Hi, Art!

Sunday, December 17, 2023
Hi, Art!

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Hi, art lovers!
 
Photo collage of 12 studio portraits. Text reads:

(Samuel Engelking, Cooper & O'Hara)
 
Remember the story about the director who used his college fund to make his first feature-length movie? Or the former cheerleader who did a handspring into the spotlight at TIFF? How about the Alberta teen who held her own against Hollywood legends? 

They’re all CBC Arts Rising Stars, and since last January, regular contributor Rad Simonpillai has been writing monthly profiles about emerging Canadian actors and directors you can expect to see more of. And now, as we run out the clock on 2023, we’ve assembled all of this year’s Rising Stars in one (gorgeous) place. For your Sunday reading, revisit the collection — or discover it for the first time — along with glamorous magazine-style portraits by photographer Samuel Engelking and Edmonton-based studio Cooper & O’Hara.
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...
 
Photo of two hanging wire outlines of hands adorned with colourful bracelets and rings, hangs from a white wall.

Jeremy Laing
Regarding the Rising Stars of 2023, let’s give them all a hand … TBD (Their Baubled Digits) by Jeremy Laing.
 
Mounted photo print of a cartoonish sculptural hand gripping sculptural folds of pink fabric. It rests on a pink ledge mounted on an emerald green wall.

Hannah Doucet
Perpetual Curtsy by Hannah Doucet.
 
Print by Mia Sandhu. In a graphic style with fine lines, it depicts three figures shrouded with a pattern of ferns. Their long-nailed hands clasp objects such as a glowing orb and leafy flowers.

Mia Sandhu
Liminal Space 1 by Mia Sandhu.
 
Illustrative painting of a surreal bathroom scene. An overflowing blue sink takes focus. Two beige hands flop over the counter.

Georgina Lee Walker
Self - Portrait by another Toronto-based artist, Georgina Lee Walker.
 
Mixed media image of two disembodied human arms. Flowers and vines unfurl from their tops, as the hands point skyward as if blasting off into the indigo space that surrounds them.

Valerie Hammond
Traces Alexandra by American artist Valerie Hammond. To make the piece, she used watercolour and acrylic paint, among other media — and despite all appearances, it is not a cyanotype!
 
 

You've got to see this
 
 
 
Medium shot of the artist Katherine Duclos standing in front of a large abstract artwork (her own) made of colourful Lego bricks. A white woman with a straight brown bob haircut she wears a sleeveless green dress and smiles broadly at the camera, her hands on her hips.
Dorothy Hong

Playing Lego with her son, something ‘clicked’ for this Vancouver artist
 
What did she discover? She found the perfect medium! Now, Katherine Duclos’s striking abstract works have earned the attention of the Danish toy company.
 
Actor Amanda Cordner, a woman of colour with short curly hair wearing a fluffly lilac sweater, smiles broadly while seated on a puffy beige couch in a room with pink patterned walls.
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Amanda Cordner says goodbye to Sort Of
 
Fans know Amanda as 7ven, Sabi’s true-blue BFF. She stopped by Here & Queer to talk about Sort Of’s incredible three-season journey, and the “beautiful family” that came together on set.
 
Two women, both wearing red tops, sit on a blue plaid picnic blanket on the shore of a lake. They both smile at the viewer.

Maggie MacPherson
 

This Okanagan opera was forgotten for decades
 
Now, a new documentary tells the story of how it was rediscovered and given a decolonial remix.
 

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Apanaki Temitayo M.
@apanakitemitayom
A collaged image made of patterned scraps of fabric. At centre, the forms depict crossed legs wearing heeled ankle boots.

Apanaki Temitayo M.
Right now, Apanaki is the artist-in-residence at the Nia Centre for the Arts in Toronto. The organization is dedicated to Black arts and culture, and its space recently underwent a $12-million renovation — something CBC Arts covered in this article you might have missed.  
 

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