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Announcing Andria Keen and Ghislan Sutherland-Timm as the recipients of the Artist Project 2024 Career Launcher!

March 5, 2024
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We're excited to announce Andria Keen and Ghislan Sutherland-Timm as the recipients of the Artist Project 2024 Career Launcher. Andria will be presenting an interactive installation and Ghislan will be exhibiting in one of the fair's booths for the 2024 fair. 

The 2024 Artist Project fair will take place from April 11-14, 2024. Discover original works of art from over 200 independent artists from across Canada and join collectors and curators, gallerists and designers, who make Artist Project their destination for new talent. Here audiences can meet and buy art directly from the artists and support the next generation of Canadian artists

 

Andria Keen (she/her) is currently completing her MFA in Visual Art at York University. She received her BFA from OCAD University’s Cross-Disciplinary Life Studies program and was the recipient of their 2023 Bluma Appel Award. Andria’s interdisciplinary methods lean toward the meditative processes in labour-intensive materially focused works. Engaging themes of temporality, cyclicality, and inclusion of the natural world through abstraction, figuration, and signifying narratives, she seeks to question our perspectives and place in relation to nature and how we inhabit deep-time, both past and future. 

Website: www.andriakeen.com
Instagram: @andriakeen

 

Ghislan Sutherland-Timm (Je-iz-lan/Jess-lin) (they/she) is a multidisciplinary craftsman and amateur media archivist based in Tkaronto/Toronto. 

As part of the queer Black Canadian diaspora, their artistic practice is influenced by their ancestral ties and reconnection to their Afro-Vincentian heritage and Carib (Island Carib/Kalinago) roots. In this process of activation, they seek to merge their identities alongside their English and Scottish (Clan Sutherland) ancestry in understanding fragmentations of their multicultural identity hosted within embodying living entities, memories, and land formations. Their work is also ignited by the ephemerality and tactility of sound and film. In creating "incomplete complete" works, collage-making across diverse mediums is frequently utilized within their practice to shape autobiographical-fictional narratives and subjects of ambiguous beings. Through this intersection Sutherland-Timm navigates unraveling the mythologies and romanticization of home and homecoming. 

Previous works of Sutherland-Timm's has been featured at InterAccess (2024), Xpace Cultural Centre (2024), ArtSpace Gallery (2023), Images Festival (2023), PITCH Magazine Issue 4 (2023) & Issue 2 (2021), RBC  Commission Career Launcher OCAD U x RBC (2022), InsideOut 2SLGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival (2022), Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) (2022), and Nia Centre for the Arts in collaboration with McMaster Museum of Art (2021).

Website: www.ghislan.com
Instagram: @orphicinema

 
 

Learn more about our Career Launchers at: https://careerlaunchers.format.com