Andrew James McKay _ Lot 0

Independent

Title: Replacement Pillar

An excerpt from a project encouraged by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, Replacement Pillar, depicts a Vancouver family home slated for destruction. The outsized notice in front of the house, a notice so large it blocks one’s view of the home, indicates the property will in turn be supplanted by a high-rise tower. In the face of much-needed affordable housing—and a glut of unsold shoebox condominiums—the tower will address neither and likely prove to be an incongruity as far as the community fabric is concerned.

Dimensions: 20" x 16"

Medium: Acrylic, ink and graphite on panel

Value: $2,000

Date: 2025

Andrew James McKay’s practice is an exploration of the relationship(s) between the component and the whole. That is to say: What are the individual and specific details of the life we experience? How do we record and arrange those details to make a work which can tell of that experience? What are the compositions of our communities as far as the relation of the individual to the collective experience? McKay is a graduate of the honours arts programme at Emily Carr University of Art+Design. He was over the course of his studies the recipient of a number of merit scholarships, grants and awards. In 2019 he became the first student in the history of that institution to be awarded upon graduation, the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Inclusion, Democracy and Reconciliation. He has since gone on to a promising emerging practice, receiving a Canada Council Research and Creation grant in 2022.