Mark Soo + Kathy Slade: VIVA Award Winners

Submitted by Roxanne Toronto on Thu, 2009-04-09 08:53
Kathy Slade | Alighiero Boetti (after Portrait by Paolo Mussat Sartor) 2005, embroidery on cotton, 26 x 28 inches

Congratulations to both Mark Soo (02) and Kathy Slade, Gallery Assistant-READ Bookstore, for their recent VIVA Award wins. The awards, provided by the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation, are awarded annually to celebrate achievement by BC artists in mid-career.

Mark Soo, a photographer and multi-media artist, has exhibited in international exhibitions in Manchester, Melbourne, New York and Toronto. In 2006 he was the focus of a solo exhibition at Vancouver's Artspeak Gallery and in 2008 Mark's photo-based artwork, That's That's Alright Alright Mama Mama, was the first work selected for purchase by the Vancouver Art Gallery for its Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund.

Kathy Slade mixes both high and low culture in a practice that includes video, photography, embroidery and sculpture. Kathy has exhibited her work across Canada and internationally, including China, Ireland, Sweden and the United States. She is currently exhibiting Black Pom-pom, an enormous pom-pom displayed on the gallery floor, as part of the exhibition How Soon Is Now.