Bio
Andrew Veloso Watkinson (2000, Canada) has mixed feelings about dying (pictured below). Fascinated by the histories and possibilities of rejecting and accepting death, they explore what it might look like to reach beyond the grave, what it may mean to live forever, and how it feels to mourn before losing.
Their colourful world of questions often manifests as ceramics, drawings, textiles and digital works made as diagrams for speculation or props for rituals. Their ritualization in and of life allows Andrew V.W. to explore the complex feelings around death while creating objects that both inform and extend their existence.
CV
Education
2023 - HBO, Base for Experimentation, Art and Research, ArtEZ (Arnhem, NL)
Group Exhibitions
2024 - Hoe is Het Nu, Apeldoorns Centrum voor Eigentijdse Cultuur (Apeldoorn, NL)
2024 - Backstage Academy, KunstRAI (Amsterdam, NL)
2024 - De Grote Keramiek Show 4, No Limits Art Castle (Amsterdam, NL)
2023 - FULL:FILLED, BEAR ArtEZ Finals (Arnhem, NL)
2022-2023 - BEAR Responds: the Fair, Dat Bolwerck (Zutphen, NL)
2021 - Extension Cord, Omstand (Arnhem, NL)
2018 - Not All of Us Want to Be Artists, Project Galleries (Toronto, CA)
Residencies
2025 - Weaving Past Into Future, SOPPRA SOTTO X CreativeLab (Pelago, IT)
Workshops
2024 - Pattern Making, Some Days Some Arts Festival (Castelnuovo Berardenga, IT)
Publications
2024 - Issue No. 33, Suboart Magazine