Andrew Donnelly is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist working across photography, image transfer, and mixed-media practices. Their work investigates identity, perception, and individual consciousness as structured by forces beyond the self, particularly synthetic systems and ideological frameworks that condition the conscious and subconscious.
Grounded in photographic process but materially expansive, Donnelly constructs layered, often sculptural works using acrylic sheets, inkjet image transfers and charcoal, among other materials. Through methods of obscuring, containment and distortion, they investigate how identity and perception are filtered through constructed systems. These material interventions operate as both barrier and lens, positioning consciousness and identity as mediated rather than inherent.
Engaging with the intersection of epistemology and existentialist philosophy, Donnelly destabilizes fixed notions of individuality. Their work considers subjectivity not as stable or singular, but as something manipulated, stratified, and refracted through cultural, political, and perceptual systems.
Contact: andrewdnly@gmail.com