Freelance Writer and Artist
This journal is primarily an archive of works written by Simone Keiran and published online or in print.
Simone Keiran is a member of the ARTiCAL Collective Critical Discourse group in Calgary. A Brief History of Western Sculpture, Quantum Books, was released at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair. Her articles have been published in Route 3, Harrowsmith Country Life, Avenue, and Porch magazines. She has written essays and critical reviews for the Kootenay Gallery of Arts, History and Science, and the Maritime Museum of British Columbia. She has been a regular writer for ARTiculate: Journal of Arts and Culture in the Columbia-Kootenay Basin, occasionally posts short arts and travel commentaries at Suite101.com, and edits a series of online arts and events sites.
Simone Keiran is based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but she has travelled extensively and has kept photojournals of the art, culture and history of the places she has visited.
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6 May, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Julian Brown
As one of the co-founders of The Kingston Prize, I was pleased to see your review of exhibition in Calgary. We are lacking public feedback on the portrait prize, and would welcome comments, positive or negative, about the Prize and the way it is developing. Your review is a very good start.
6 May, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Simone
My pleasure, Mr. Brown! Thank you to you and your wife for setting up the Kingston Prize for Contemporary Canadian Portraiture, which brought so many well-executed works to Calgary, and which, I hope, continues to encourage artists across the country. The calibre of those works was so inspiring, and as a reviewer, the only disheartening part was selecting only four or five to display due to the limitations of the suite101 format. There were so many more that I would’ve loved to call attention to and write about. I can only imagine how difficult it must’ve been for the adjudicators to create a shortlist.
Best,
Simone