Artist Diana Thorneycroft wins award of distinction
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Winnipeg artist Diana Thorneycroft has been named the 2016 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction recipient.
The award, handed out by the Manitoba Arts Council, is given to a Manitoba artist who has reached the “highest level of excellence and long-term achievements.” Thorneycroft, the 11th recipient of the award, will receive $30,000 as part of the recognition.
“Receiving this award is a validation of the risks I have taken as an artist. Although it sometimes gets me into trouble, I have always endeavoured to make work that is authentic and honest,” Thorneycroft said in a news release. “As a feminist and teacher, I hope to be a role model to younger artists seeking to express — without censorship — their own voice.
“I am deeply grateful to be nominated by MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art), and to my peers who selected me for this honour. As always, I feel fortunate to live in such a vibrant and supportive community.”Active in the national art scene since the 1990s, Thorneycroft is known for creating work that “hovers on the edge of public acceptance,” such as her collection of black-and-white self-portraits that dives into issues surrounding sexual identity and the body in pain. More recently, her work has taken a pointed look at the Canadian identity.
Thorneycroft has exhibited works all over the world, including the United States, Europe, Russia, Japan and Australia, as well as across Canada. Her series, Group of Seven Awkward Moments, has made the rounds at some of the top galleries in the country, including the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Ontario, and was named one of the Top 10 Exhibitions of 2008 in Canadian Art Magazine.
Her latest work, an installation entitled Herd currently at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Ontario, includes 150 plastic toy horses — some which have been altered in various ways — ascending a 12-metre ramp. “To me, it is about the human condition and the fragility of the human condition, but also the hopefulness that, despite alterations, they endure,” said Thorneycroft about the piece in an interview with the Owen Sound Times earlier this year.