Each year, the Insights Committee invites a panel of respected arts professionals to select works for inclusion in the exhibition. These jurors represent diverse backgrounds and perspectives, ensuring a fair, thoughtful, and dynamic selection process.

Insights is one of the few exhibitions that continues to jury original artworks rather than digital images.

Artist and award selections celebrate the richness of the region’s creative community and encourage artists to continue growing and refining their practice.

Debra Antoncic

 

Debra Antoncic is the Director/Curator of RiverBrink Art Museum in Niagara-on-the Lake. Having previously worked as an Independent Curator and University Lecturer in Art History and Museum Studies, she joined RiverBrink as Associate Curator in 2011. She holds a PhD in art history from Queen’s University and a combined Master of Arts and Curatorial Diploma from York University. She has curated numerous exhibitions of Canadian historical and contemporary art.  

 

Kirsten Abrahamson

 

Kirsten Abrahamson is a Canadian visual artist and educator whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, ceramics, and interdisciplinary studio work. She holds an MFA and BFA from the University of Calgary and has taught at the postsecondary level for nearly four decades. Since 2007, she has been a Professor at Sheridan College, where she is Course Leader for Painting and Colour Theory. Abrahamson has exhibited widely across Canada, held multiple artist residencies, served as an art juror for major institutions, and her work is represented in significant public and private collections.

 

Scott Everingham

 

Scott Everingham’s paintings challenge traditional ideas of landscape and figure–ground relationships, inviting an emotional and introspective response from the viewer. A 3-time finalist in the prestigious RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Everingham attained a BFA from NSCAD University and an MFA from the University of Waterloo. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada and internationally in the US, Denmark, England, and the Netherlands, and is included in important private, corporate, and institutional collections.