The bookshop is delighted to welcome Sandra Brewster for the launch of her book Blur, published by Free Pony Press.
Blur presents a look at Sandra Brewster’s eponymous series, a body of work exploring memory, movement and diasporic identity. Featuring gel transfer reproductions made from photographs, the book documents the development of Brewster’s photographic techniques and themes since the series began in 2016. An essay by Pamela Edmonds explores how this work challenges established representations and evokes stories of migration. Blur offers a detailed examination of Brewster’s methods and her engagement with concepts of opacity, resilience and the complexities of black identity.
Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. The child of Guyanese parents, Brewster’s practice reflects a multi-dimensional understanding of identity, born of the collision between place and time. She received her BFA from York University and is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies program at the University of Toronto. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections and has been shown internationally. Brewster is the recipient of CONTACT’s Gattuso Award (2017), the Toronto Friends of Visual Arts Artist Award (2018) and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Photography Award (2023). In 2024, she received the prestigious Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award.
