{"id":18286,"date":"2026-09-14T14:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/?page_id=18286"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:18:15","slug":"2026-lga-visual-arts-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/awards\/2026-lga\/2026-lga-visual-arts-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Collicutt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"letter-spacing:5px\">CAROL COLLICUTT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Lieutenant Governor\u2019s Awards for High Achievement in the Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2026 Visual Arts Award\u2019s Laureate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Carol-Collicutt-2-cropped-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Carol-Collicutt-2-cropped-3.jpg 978w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Carol-Collicutt-2-cropped-3-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Carol-Collicutt-2-cropped-3-766x482.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Carol Collicutt has been a professional artist in New Brunswick for over 40 years, primarily expressing herself through painting, sculpture, installation, and photography.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Carol uses found objects as well as collage, metal, photographs, marble dust on surfaces such as panel, paper, mylar and canvas. The possibilities of the combination of materials are what keeps her constantly engaged and immersed in the work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A notably prolific artist, Carol is known for bodies of work that showcase the ever-evolving facets of her artistic practice: including her large-scale photographs, her journal series using layered text and imagery to represent her inner thoughts, and her large photographs of her own eye, exploring the depths of memories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Carol has spent many years supporting the arts sector in New Brunswick, including as president and board member of Gallery Connexion, an artist-run center in Fredericton and as the Chair of artsnb.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In 2024 she was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal for excellence in the arts, and in 2025 the Sheila Hugh Mackay Arts Advocacy Award.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;I like to change and I like to explore how I feel about things which is mostly an autobiographical reaction to things that I think about all the time. But mostly it comes from inside&#8230; I can&#8217;t pinpoint an external impetus for my work. &#8220;<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">To see all the laureates for the 2026 Lieutenant Governor\u2019s Awards, <a href=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/awards\/2026-lga\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1773\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LGA-2026-long-rectangle-no-laureate-18-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LGA-2026-long-rectangle-no-laureate-18-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LGA-2026-long-rectangle-no-laureate-18-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LGA-2026-long-rectangle-no-laureate-18-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LGA-2026-long-rectangle-no-laureate-18-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LGA-2026-long-rectangle-no-laureate-18-1536x1064.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LGA-2026-long-rectangle-no-laureate-18-2048x1419.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAROL COLLICUTT Lieutenant Governor\u2019s Awards for High Achievement in the Arts 2026 Visual Arts Award\u2019s Laureate Carol Collicutt has been a professional artist in New Brunswick for over 40 years, primarily expressing herself through painting, sculpture, installation, and photography.&nbsp; 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