Biography

Andy Patton was born in Winnipeg in 1952 and moved to Toronto in 1977. He represented Canada at the Sydney Biennale in 1984. In the 90s, much of his work was wall paintings, done in abandoned industrial buildings and farm silos. Together with Roo Borson and Kim Maltman—as Pain Not Bread, a poetry collaboration—he wrote "Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei" which was published by Brick Books in 2000. He is currently working with Kongats Architects on the District Energy Centre in Toronto's West Don Lands development.

Research

I am studying classical Chinese calligraphy of the Northern Song period, a type of work which was simultaneously a literary object and a visual object. My goal is to produce western-style paintings which can carry over some small sense of this ambiguous position into our very different period and culture—as well as the Song period's dense literary allusiveness.