The Manitoba Arts Network has announced that the Hudson Bay Company's (HCB) People's Choice Award winner for the 7th Annual Rural and Northern Art Show as Thompson's own Teresa Burrows.
Burrows won for her piece, called Caribou Women: The Sun Staff, which was made of beadwork, antlers and mixed media. It was chosen, from over 90 other artwork pieces by artists in rural Manitoba, by visitors attending the Rural and Northern Art Show.
Burrows was born in London, England and came to Canada in 1965, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1986. She completed a Bachelor or Fine Art degree at the University of Manitoba in 1984 and moved to Thompson in 1981. Since then she has worked as a cultural programmer, addictions counselor, probation officer and school librarian.
Her work has been shown regularly at different Northern Juried Art Exhibitions and with the Manitoba Society of Artists in Winnipeg. She has created art pieces by painting, printmaking, drawing, watercolour painting, photography, collage and craft, and has received the Best in Show and People's Choice awards.
Burrows has also been included in group exhibitions in the province and was featured in solo exhibitions at the National Exhibition Centre in 1999 and 2002. Her works have been featured at the Godfrey Dean Gallery in 2003, the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2003, and the National Exhibition Centre also in 2003. The next year her work was included at Winnipeg's Bound-8 Manitoba Painters' show, and in 2005 was displayed in the National Exhibition Centre. Later on in 2006 her work became part of the Heritage North Museum in Thompson.
Burrows' The Sul(fur) Queen piece was selected to exhibit at the Cheongju Craft biennale in September and October of 2009 in South Korea and is also going to be shown at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games and tour the Canada and the United States in the next two years.
Works by Burrows' are also being held in private collections in Canada, Australia, England and Cuba.
