12th Edition Jury
An independent, jury of visual arts professionals, who represent different areas of expertise.
Members of the jury are selected from across the world. And new featured jurors join the panel in each Edition of the Award.
All artists’ submissions will be anonymous to the jury.
“Order of the Dawn” Oil on Linen by Eric Uhlir (6th Edition Finalist)
Chantal Boynes
Chantal Boynes is a Caribbean born artist who has studied and practiced fine arts worldwide, from Canada, to Italy to Australia to her native Trinidad and Tobago. She focuses on oil painting figurative works depicting women of colour while utilising the intensity and boldness of her colour palette, most certainly a reflection of the artistic practices of her home. Boynes has exhibited internationally in Switzerland, Australia, Jamaica as well as her home of Trinidad and Tobago.
In late 2019, while completing an Advanced Diploma in Melbourne, Australia, Boynes decided to expand her involvement in the art world and with other artists by attempting to create a way for emerging artists to have a platform that was solely dedicated to the support of talent. She did this by founding the Boynes Emerging Artist Award, an international art award accepting all 2D work. A competition run by artists and dedicated to artists.
Chantal Boynes has dedicated herself to not just her own practice, but the practices of all the talented artists in the Boynes Artist Award.
*From the 9th Edition the Boynes Emerging Artist Award was updated to the Boynes Artist Award, and changed to include artists of all backgrounds and experience levels.
Meet the juror
Carina Francioso is an internationally recognized, award winning Canadian fine artist with works held in private and corporate collections around the globe. Her meticulous attention to detail is clearly demonstrated through her contemporary realist oil paintings.
Inspired by the calm or turbulent, incessantly changing waters of the world, Carina’s current work expresses the beauty, power and fragility of these precious waters. Through the creamy, rich textures of oil paint she endeavours to acknowledge that this natural resource must be cherished and preserved. Inspired by Carina's life and travels, her paintings capture moments frozen in time yet inspire the movement of imagination, offering the viewer their own interpretation. Carina’s work continues to evolve and her intimate journey with every brush stroke and detail remains constant. Her work is a direct reflection of her passion for life and her constant inquiry into beauty and fluidity.
Carina is the recipient of the 2019 Arcadia Contemporary Gallery Award, the Bernice Adams Memorial Visual Arts Award and Bursary, among several others. Recently, her work has been internationally broadcasted on RAI Television and has been featured in various magazines such as American Art Collector, GRAND Magazine, Art Renewal Center’s International Realism Salon Catalog, Hyperrealism Magazine and Panoram Italia.
Meet the juror
Gabriella Wyke is an artist and photographer from Trinidad and Tobago whose professional experience spans working as a freelance photographer, teaching and mentoring in the photography arena. Most of her current work discusses women’s issues and other societal issues affecting minority groups through black and white, documentary photography.