SYDNEY – Eskasoni’s   has made the long list for the 2014 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s pre-eminent contemporary art award.

Presented by the Sobey Art Foundation and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the award is given out annually to a visual artist, age 40-or-under, who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.

Johnson, an interdisciplinary artist with Mi’kmaq ancestry, is currently based at home in Cape Breton, where she is artist-in-residence at Cape Breton University.
She is a graduate of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax.

Johnson’s art incorporates the traditional aboriginal art form of basketry expressed through a variety of mediums including, performance, installation, and sculpture. Her co-operative-based performance series L’nuwelti’k will be touring nationally with Making Otherwise: Craft and Material Fluency in Contemporary Art, curated by Heather Anderson; and her current body of work will be featured in a nationally touring exhibition titled Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You/You Do Remember), curated by Robin Metcalfe.

A total of 25 artists from across Canada have been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, which awards $50,000 to the winner, $10,000 to the other four finalists; and $500 to each of the remaining longlisted artists.

“The longlist for the Sobey Art Award is always a greatly anticipated survey of contemporary Cana ...

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