Nelly Kazenbroot

Home: Nanaimo, British Columbia
Title: The Other Side of Fifty
Media: Acrylic on panel / acrylique sur panneau
Dimensions: 61 x 45.5 cm
Website: www.nellykazenbroot.com

This self-portrait reveals my aging face through an invisible barrier. Paint captures the emotional and physical reality of living a full life for fifty years, but the surface of the art board itself is the symbolic, permanent divider between my present life and the youth I can now only look back on.

EDUCATION:
Courses in design, drafting and fine arts at Malaspina College
Full-time study in creative writing, fine arts and sociology at the University of Victoria

EXHIBITIONS:
2012 Solo Exhibition, “Alchemy”, Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum, BC
2012 Art for Wildlife Exhibition/Silent Auction, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC
2011 Feature artist exhibition at Nanaimo Art Gallery, BC
2011 Art for Wildlife Exhibition/Silent Auction, Nanaimo Art Gallery, BC
2010 Small Works Christmas Show, Artfitterz, Nanaimo, BC
2010 H’Arts for the Homeless, The Roundhouse, Yaletown, Vancouver, BC
2010 Kingston Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2010 Kingston Prize Exhibition, Waddington’s Auction Rooms, Toronto, ON
2009 Kingston Prize Exhibition, Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, NS
2009 Kingston Prize Exhibition, Grand Theatre, Kingston, ON
2009 Fall Juried Show, Nanaimo FCA, Nanaimo Art Gallery, BC
2009 “Stone, Letter, Bird” Exhibition, FCA Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver
2009 Nanaimo FCA Spring Showcase juried group show

AWARDS:
2011 Finalist, Painting on the Edge, Open International Juried Exhibition
2010 Finalist in the National Winter Juried Art Show, Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum, BC
2009 Finalist in The Kingston Prize, Canada’s National Portrait Competition