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| | ARTIST NAME: | Bromley, Sandra | | ACCESSION NUMBER: | 2017.029.001 | | TITLE: | SENTINEL | | DATE: | 2017 | | CATEGORY: | Sculpture | | MEDIUM: | stone, concrete, steel, brick, mortar | | DIMENSIONS: | 210.8 × 71.1 × 99.1 cm (83 × 28 × 39 in.) | | COLLECTION: | Alberta Foundation for the Arts |
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| | OTHER HOLDINGS: | Bromley, Sandra | | ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Sandra Bromley is an Edmonton-based artist whose works have elicited international attention. Bromley is a graduate of the University of Alberta where she earned her BFA with Distinction in 1979. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Consortium for Human Security and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She has exhibited consistently in Edmonton and London, England, where she lived for several years, as well as in solo and group exhibitions in North America, Europe and Asia. Bromley has taught sculpture and painting and has presented guest lectures and artist talks that coincide with exhibitions as well as at festivals, conferences and universities. Her public art commissions, ”It’s About Time,” on the front of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts building in Edmonton and “The Big Rock,” which she created with Catherine Burgess, on Rice Howard Way, are familiar to many Edmontonians.
Bromley’s work often deals with issues related to war, conflict and peace. In 2000, she and Wallis Kendal, co-created The Art of Peacemaking: The Gun Sculpture, an installation exhibition centred around a large-scale sculpture that viewers can walk into; the sculpture comprises over 7,000 deactivated weapons donated from countries around the world and is accompanied by portraits of victims of violence and a video that tracks audience responses. The Gun Sculpture premiered in Edmonton and toured to Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany; the Centenary Celebrations of the Nobel Peace Prize in Seoul, Korea; the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa; and the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Bromley is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Salute to Excellence - City of Edmonton Hall of Fame, the Rotary Integrity Award, the Queen’s Jubilee Medal, the University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award, the Alberta Centennial Medallion and the Global Edmonton Woman of Vision Award. In 2003, she founded Sierra Leone Bo Girls Group, a non-profit fundraising initiative to support Sierra Leone children affected by war, and in 1997 she, along with Wallis Kendal, co-founded the iHuman Youth Society, a charity in service of high-risk youth that uses fine arts-based programs.
Compiled 2014 |
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