Artist Talk: Stephen Andrews | Thursday 30 November

Artist Talk with Stephen Andrews

Thursday, 30 November at 7:00 p.m.

Free – All Welcome

We are pleased to announce an Artist Talk with Stephen Andrews, one of the featured artists in our current exhibition, SOS: A Story of Survival, Part II – The Body.

Andrews will ruminate on the evolution of ideas in the works included in SOS, and will question how meaning and interpretation can change over time. He will also be thinking out loud about the necessity of political engagement in an artistic practice.

This is also the launch event for a whole weekend centered around Andrews’ work in SOS as KWAG participates in the 35^th annual Day With(out) Art, which began in 1989 in response to the worsening AIDS crisis at the time. Today, there is still no cure or vaccine for individuals who are HIV-positive and 38 million people are living with HIV and AIDS across the world. 25% of these individuals still do not have access to effective medication.

We will be marking the Day With(out) Art on 1 + 2 December, including a free film screening. Visit this page for more information about our programming.

About the Artist

Stephen Andrews was born in 1956 in Sarnia, Ontario. His work deals with memory, identity, and technology, and their representations in various media including photography, drawing, animation, painting and ceramics. Over the last forty years he has exhibited his work across Canada, the United States of America, Brazil, Scotland, France, Italy and Japan, including POV, a fifteen-year survey at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2015 (with catalogue) and Aftermath, with drawings focused on the Iraq War, at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2018 (with catalogue). 

Andrews is represented in collections including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, ON), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (QC), the Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, ON), the Art Gallery of Hamilton (ON), the Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound, ON), the Schwartz Collection at Harvard University (Boston, MA), and corporate art collections including Torys (Toronto), Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt (Toronto), the Royal Bank of Canada, National Bank of Canada, TD Canada Trust and the Bank of Montreal.

Andrews is a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2019).

This artist talk is generously supported by:

Images:

[1] Stephen Andrews, East Jerusalem 7.VI.21, 2021. As seen in SOS: A Story of Survival, Part II – The Body. Watercolour pencil on Mylar. 43.2 x 28 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Paul Petro Contemporary Art.

[2] Stephen Andrews bio photo, 2023. Courtesy of the Artist.