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Sandra Brewster: FISH 

April 12, 2025 – January 2026

Site-Specific Installation

This spring: Using drawing and photo-based gel transfer techniques, Toronto based Sandra Brewster’s installation will depict the Essequibo River in Guyana and its distinctive fish species, evoking the fluidity and dynamism of water as a metaphor for migration and transformation.

Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist whose work explores the nuanced interplay between identity and environment. Her multidisciplinary practice—spanning drawing, photography, and sculpture—examines the lived experiences of movement and migration, often using gel transfer techniques to create textured, layered surfaces that reflect the unfixed, dynamic nature of diasporic identity.

Brewster’s installation offers a transformative, relational perspective on land, water, and history—one rooted in the diasporic experience.

Sandra Brewster: FISH is presented in partnership with CONTACT Photography Festival.

Sandra Brewster headshot

Photo credit: Jalani Morgan

Exhibition view: FISH (2025), acrylic, drawing and photo-based gel transfer on wall. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, April 12, 2025–January 2026. Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

Past Events

A detail image of acrylic and photo-based gel transfer on wood artwork, representing multiple fish

Artist’s Talk

Sandra Brewster

Speakers: Sandra Brewster & John Geoghegan

Sunday, May 25, 2025 | 2 pm

Free with registration.

Generously Supported by

The Gordon and Lorraine Gibson Family Foundation

Liza and Frederick Murrell