ALEX ROBINSON

Momma

2022

Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Visual Description: 3 young boys with flower pots for heads standing on a playground platform. Beneath them is a black and white image with what appears to be windows and many words written in varying sizes.

ARTIST | Alex Robinson

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Instagram: @artbyrobinson

Alex Robinson is a Black Canadian self-taught artist. He works primarily with acrylic paints, but he has expanded his practice to include the creation of his very own arts-based podcast. His current body of work, “Human Nature” uses nature to comment on perception and challenge commonly held stereotypes about race, culture, and identity.

ARTIST MENTOR | Aquil Virani

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Instagram: @aquilvirani

Aquil Virani is an award-winning artist, graphic designer and filmmaker of Indian and French heritage based in Tkaronto. Awarded as the 2018 “Artist of the Year” by the Quebec-based artist collective “Artists for Peace,” his participatory work often blurs the line between art and activism. As curator Celine Le Merlus of the Stewart Hall Art Gallery explains, “his approach, which aims not simply to assert a personal point of view on a pressing social issue, but also to facilitate opportunities for others to express themselves freely – to speak and be heard – is characteristic of all of Aquil’s work.”

He was the Canadian Museum of Immigration’s first national artist-in-residence in 2022, unveiling the “Our immigrant stories” project that integrated the voices, photographs and text-based stories of over 100 participants across the country. Learn more at aquil.ca. “What a fantastic experience to work alongside Alex and learn more about his beautiful and important artwork. Alex’s paintings make important statements about Black lives with subtlety and wit; he uses a broad skillset to nourish his own curiosity and we are lucky to witness the results of his ongoing artistic journey.

Check out his work atartbyrobinson.com.