Emerging Atlantic Canada Artist Award - 2017 Recipients Tour
Lou Sheppard, photo by Lisen Shultz
The Emerging Atlantic Canada Artist Residency provides one emerging visual artist with strong personal and artistic ties to Atlantic Canada a fully funded opportunity to create new work at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The program is an initiative of The Hnatyshyn Foundation in collaboration with Banff Centre, and made possible through the generous support of the Harrison McCain Foundation
Join artist Lou Sheppard, 2017 recipient of the Emerging Atlantic Artist Award, for a Visual Arts Open Lecture. These lectures present talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators and academics. Lou Sheppard is a Canadian artist working in video, audio and installation practices.
Lou Sheppard is currently on tour as part of the Emerging Atlantic Artist Award program. Learn more about their experience and artistic practice, at an artist talk near you.
March 21 – Axeneo7, Gatineau Quebec
March 23 – Banff Centre, Alberta
March 27 – Access Gallery, Vancouver
March 29 – Open Space, Victoria
Artist Biography
Lou Sheppard is Canadian artist working in video, audio and installation practices. Of settler ancestry, Sheppard was raised on unceded Mi'Kmaq territory, and currently lives in K'jiputuk (Halifax.) A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, their work has been exhibited both in Canada and internationally, and was included in the Antarctic Biennale and the Antarctic Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial. In 2017 Sheppard was selected for the Emerging Atlantic Artist Award to complete a program that composes music based on concentrations of sea ice. Sheppard’s current project, a choreographic translation of the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria, is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Sheppard is currently completing a residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, and will be an artist in residence at the Khyber in Nova Scotia and the Doris McCarthy AIR in Toronto this coming spring.
