Sobey Art Award 2012
Following the nomination process and the selection of the 2012 Long List, the Curatorial Panel has finalized the Shortlist for this year’s award.

West Coast: Gareth Moore
Prairies and the North: Jason de Haan
Ontario: Derek Sullivan
Québec: Raphaëlle de Groot
Atlantic: Eleanor King

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Gareth Moore The Road Through the Forest by Lyman A. William, 2008 Shirt, pants, leather suspenders, shoes, hand-made underwear, hat, stick, 24 photographs, box camera, cigarettes, pillowcase backpack, wool blanket, American currency, seaweed, dried blackberries, steel, raccoon tail, eraser, found painting, glasses, lucky object, button, tobacco, feathers, string, soap, conte drawing, skull, sheet, motel slip 64 x 44 x 33 inches (162.5 x 111.75 x 84 cm) Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver	Gareth Moore Crown Compass from Uncertain Pilgrimage, 2009, globes, balls, paint, scrap metal, 261.62 x 56.51 x 137.16 cm. Courtesy of Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
Jason de Haan Salt Beard (Mercury) salt and borrowed bust, 65 x 24 x 24”,  2010.	Jason de Haan New Jerusalem, 2010, collaged book covers mounted on black linen, 182.9 x 182.9 cm. A floating city/landscape collage from the deconstructed covers of over 1000 1950s-80s science fiction paperbacks. Named for the Biblical City of God that descends from the heavens at the end of time.
Derek Sullivan Peg Rail #2 (walking and chewing the fat at the same time), 2011, wood rail, pine Rietveld Zig-Zag chair with aluminum paint, 3 pieces of rope, laser cut fabric, unique artist book, 137.16 x 129.54 x 45.72 cm. Photo: Toni Hafkensheid	Derek Sullivan Installation view of Albatross Omnibus The Power Plant, 2011, 52 artists’ books; ladders, dimensions variable, 2011. Photo credit: Toni Hafkensheid
Raphaëlle de Groot Port de tete (detail)  inkjet print, 51 x 71.5 cm, 2010. Photo credit Mirko Sabatini.	Raphaëlle de Groot Le poids des objets, 2009, installation: wooden crate, various objects, text. Photo: Patrick Altman Le lieu
Eleanor King Obso-les-sense mixed installation, dimensions variable, 2009. Photo credit: Steve Farmer	Eleanor King Taddle Creek (detail), 2011, installation, variable. Photo: ccca

Artist Portraits

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Gareth Moore West Coast and Yukon Photo by: Aleyah Solomon	Jason de Haan Prairies and the North Photo by: Aleyah Solomon
Derek Sullivan Ontario Photo by: Aleyah Solomon	Raphaëlle de Groot Québec Photo by: Aleyah Solomon
Eleanor King Atlantic Photo by: Aleyah Solomon

About The Sobey Art Award
The Sobey Art Award, Canada’s pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian art, was created in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation. It is an annual prize given to an artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. A total of $70,000 in prize money is awarded annually; $50,000 to the winner and $5,000 to the other four finalists. Since its inception, the Sobey Art Award and accompanying exhibition have been organized and administered by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.