About the Artist
Andrew McLaren is a Canadian visual and media artist currently based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who studied at the Byam Shaw School in London, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and the University of Calgary. Having marked five years as a London Bike Messenger and moved on, he has been extensively involved with Canadian Artist Run Centres and as a self-publisher of artist books for many years. A recipient of several Canada Council and other Grants, his work occasionally drifts into public space.
Artist's Statement
Adrew McLaren: My work responds to systems and conventions of signification. As such formal or anti- formal approaches are adopted using numeric, written language, mapping or pictoral frameworks. Incidental relations, artefacts of process, figments of media and narrative anecdote are all elements in different aspects of my output. Repetition, variation and structural development are productive strategies which inform my digital and materially fabricated art. In short, I make stuff.