Andrew Donnelly (he/she/they) is a queer practice-based researcher living in Tkaronto and working across photography, image transfer and mixed-media practices. They hold a BFA with honours in Image Arts Photography from Toronto Metropolitan University. Their work investigates perception and individual consciousness as structured by forces outside of the self, questioning ideological frameworks that condition the conscious and subconscious. Grounded in photographic processes but materially expansive, they construct layered, often sculptural works using acrylic sheets, acrylic gel image transfers, charcoal and other materials. They have exhibited nationally at Gallery 44, Gallery 1313, Durham Community Arts Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University, Sankofa Square and Cultivate Art Commons, as well as internationally at the University of Brighton. They have been the recipient of the SF Third Year Photography award from Toronto Metropolitan University, as well as an Artreach Project Creation Grant.

My work is a vessel 

for navigating and processing how we are the products of the colonial and heteronormative systems that surround us, 

with my goal being to unbind myself from the web 

that these frameworks have trapped us in; 

to critique, 

unlearn 

and re-interpret.

Contact: andrewdnly@gmail.com

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