Here are the nominees for the Long Haul Award category of our 9th Annual EVA Awards! The Emerging Artist Award is sponsored by The Leyton Gallery of Fine Art.
Don Beaubier
Donald Beaubier was born and raised in rural Alberta and is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art & Design, the University of Calgary and St. Francis Xavier University. He first came to Newfoundland in 1968 to teach a nine-month jewellery program at what is now the College of the North Atlantic in Corner Brook and as a result has spent most of his working life here. Like the prairie in which he grew up, Newfoundland geography is uncompromising and difficult to deal with in totality. The reduction of the Atlantic marine landscape into discrete elements has been the foundation of the design vocabulary that has informed the majority of his work over the past thirty plus years, and much of his jewellery has been an examination of very small aspects of this very particular landscape… small tidal pools, little sections of gravel beach, drifts of sea grass, and even particular pebbles or specific plant forms… the constituents that make up the margin between earth and water.
He has exhibited nationally for many years, beginning while still a student with Perspective ’67, a juried exhibition sponsored by the Canadian Government Centennial Commission at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Since that time he has shown in many solo and group exhibitions across Canada, and his work has been included in Canadian pavilions at two world fairs and in Canadian Embassy exhibitions in Germany, Japan and Washington DC. Currently, he is finishing work for a solo show at Gust Gallery in Waterton Lakes National Park, which opens on August 1st.
He has won numerous awards, has been twice nominated for the Saidye Bronfman Award for excellence in crafts in Canada, and received the 2012 Award for Outstanding Achievement by the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Scott Goudie
Ever since I can remember I have wanted to be an artist. I have been involved in visual art since I was five years old when I studied privately with Paul Parsons until 1968. I then went on to study with Don Wright and Gerald Squires for the next five years until I moved to Vancouver to attend the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr School of Art) from 1972-1974. I have made a living on my art for over 37 years so you can say that my life has been an artistic journey. Through this journey my focus has changed from figurative, portraiture and social realism to cityscapes and mostly landscapes. In my landscapes I concentrate on the light whether it is atmospheric or reflected on water. You will find water in most of my works as I am fascinated with the different ways that light plays off bodies of water such as a still pool or a rushing falls. In the landscape studies like those I have done of Labrador, I try to convey the vastness of the land and the insignificance of humans in this vast landscape. I try to achieve a sense of place and architecture while still using the light and composition to define the image again without the presence of humans.
My artistic influences would be Whistler, Rembrandt, Gerry Squires and Christopher Pratt. Interestingly, Whistler and Rembrandt used the same printmaking techniques in lithography and dry point engraving that I currently use today.
Pam Hall
Pam Hall is a visual artist, film-maker and writer, whose work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally, and is represented in many corporate, private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada. Her practice is interdisciplinary—including installation, drawing, object-making, photography, film, writing , social practice and performance. Her work has explored the fisheries, the body, female labour, place-making, the nature of knowledge and notions of the “local”. She was the inaugural Artist-in-Residence in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University and spent more than two years there pursuing her research into how doctors learn to see the body. Her work is often collaborative and for more than a decade she has undertaken socially-engaged projects with communities in locations distant from the pristine space of the gallery, the studio, and the museum. In rural Newfoundland and Alberta, on wharves here and in Japan, in local fish plants and distant farmer’s fields, Hall has made work that involves many others as participants and collaborators. She has worked with doctors and medical students, fishers on both coasts of Canada, workers in the food service and fish processing industries, knowledge-holders in Western Newfoundland and was the only artist on an interdisciplinary team of scholars studying the crisis in the marine fisheries in Canada. She has also written and illustrated children’s books, is an award-winning production designer in the Newfoundland film industry, winning the first Director’s Guild of Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production Design for her work on Rare Birds. She was inducted into the Royal Academy of the Arts (RCA) in 1992 and has been teaching graduate students in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College in Vermont since 1998. She has lived and worked in St. John’s for more than forty years, where she recently completed her PhD at Memorial University undertaking research and creation that proposed visual art as a form of knowledge production. HouseWork(s)—a ten-year survey exhibition of her work is currently on display at The Rooms until September.
Will Gill earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mount Allison University in 1991, with a focus on sculpture. 
Philippa Jones has been a St. John’s based artist since 2009. Prior to moving here Jones completed a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Interactive Art & Design at University College Falmouth. Jones’ diverse art practice has included and sometimes combines printmaking, painting, pen and ink, animation, art games and interactive installations. Central to Jones’ work is the exploration of constructed realities, active myth making and a celebration of wonder and the inquisitive mind. In 2013 Jones was favourably reviewed by Gloria Hickey in C Magazine for her solo show ‘MIRIAD’ at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery. The drawing ‘Miriad Island’ that featured in the exhibition was subsequently purchased by the National Gallery of Canada. Jones is represented by the Christina Parker Gallery.
Peter Wilkins (British, b. 1968) is a multimedia artist based in Clarke’s Beach, Newfoundland. Wilkins’ various bodies of work have been exhibited in public and private galleries across Canada and abroad, including The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery (St. Johns’, NL), Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown, PEI), the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, B.C), and Canada House (London, England). His portrait and landscape artworks are held in public and private collections in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France and Greece. In 2009, Peter Wilkins was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Memorial University (St John’s, NL). In 2011, his works based on the architecture of Toronto were exhibited as a featured exhibition of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival (Toronto, ON). In 2013, Wilkins exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale in the Collateral Event, About Turn: Newfoundland in Venice, Will Gill & Peter Wilkins.
Kailey Bryan is a multi-media artist currently living and working in St. John’s, NL. She received her BFA with Honours from York University and was the recipient of the E. J. Lightman Sculpture Award and the Louis Odette Award for Sculpture. Kailey is a founding member of Toronto based collective Tongue & Groove, who create participatory installations with recycled materials, increasingly exhibited in public spaces. Kailey’s individual practice centers on commercially manufactured materials and the body, exploring ways in which bodies and environments – physical, social, and psychological – mutually construct one another. Moving toward installation, video and performance, she hums and haws about power, agency, and accountability. She loves critical discussion, large bodies of water, and puns.
Malin Enström was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and has lived in Southern Europe, North Africa and North America. The main focus of Malin’s practice is photography, for which she won an Arts & Letters Award in 2013. She recently had her first solo show, One of of Nine, which documented the lives and experiences of breast cancer survivors in Newfoundland. In her day job, Malin is a crime analyst at the RNC and a PhD student at Memorial University. Malin is represented by the Leyton Gallery of Fine Art.
Mike Gough was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, in 1985. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in 2007 and in 2009 graduated from Memorial University with a Bachelor of Education. Gough went on to attend Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, England, and graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in 2010. Shortly after, he was invited to exhibit with Witham Gallery in London for an exhibition featuring ten emerging artists from the top graduate schools in the UK, showing the future direction of British art. His work has appeared in group and solo exhibitions in Canada, the UK and France, and is part of both private and public collections in England and Canada. Gough was shortlisted for the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Emerging Artist of the Year in 2013. In December, 2013 Gough opened his first public gallery solo exhibition, titled Retrace, at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery as part of the Elbow Room Residency Program. Gough is currently represented by Christina Parker Gallery.