Stephen Andrews

Stephen Andrews in his studio.

Stephen Andrews is a Toronto-based artist originally from Sarnia, Ontario. His work deals with memory, identity, technology, and their representations in various media including drawing, animation, and recently ceramics and painting. Andrews states that to represent both the message and the means by which it is delivered, he renders various ‘looks’ of mechanical reproduction by hand.

Over the last twenty-five years, he has exhibited his work in Canada, the U.S.A., Brazil, Scotland, France, and Japan. In 2015 a major survey exhibition curated by Kitty Scott, titled Stephen Andrews: POV was presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. He is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Belkin Art Gallery, the Schwartz Collection, Harvard as well as many private collections. Andrews is a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2019).

He was also part of the group exhibition The Body and Society at the Embassy Cultural House showing from November 10th to December 9th, 1988. For more information on the artist please visit his website. Stephen is included in the 50th-anniversary group exhibit at The Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France which opened on September 17 and runs until October 16, 2020. He also has an upcoming solo exhibition at Paul Petro Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, Ontario. There he will be presenting his recent night sky paintings and a collection of ceramic Moon Jars. The opening reception for FIRMAMENT is on October 16, 2020; please click here for more details. Visit his website for more information.

Art Works

Auditorium (detail) 2009-2015 oil on canvas - Collection of The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

"A small part of something larger", 2011, mosaic

Fingerprints 1995

Shooting Star, 2020 - Oil on canvas

EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,   JoAnna Weil

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson.

OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

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E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.