Walter Scott & Brenda Draney in Conversation
Live Streamed Event
Join Walter Scott & Brenda Draney for a live-streamed artist talk on Saturday, June 20 at 1pm MST. Both Scott and Draney attended a residency at the Banff Centre back in 2013, titled What Color is the Present. Draney was in attendance for Scott's book club on Trendy Wendy, which was released at that time.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Walter Scott b. 1985, is an interdisciplinary artist working across comics, drawing, video, performance and sculpture. His comic series, Wendy, chronicles the continuing misadventures of a young artist in a satirical version of the contemporary art world. Wendy has been featured in Canadian Art, Art in America, and published online on the New Yorker. It was selected for the 2016 edition of Best American Comics, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York. Recent exhibitions include Slipping on the Missing X at Macaulay Fine Art in Vancouver, The Pathos of Mandy at The Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, and Extension of Doubt, at Cooper Cole, in Toronto. Walter was recently an artist-in-residence at the ISCP, in Brooklyn, New York, in 2019. His new graphic novel, Wendy, Master of Art, is available from Drawn and Quarterly in Spring 2020.
Brenda Draney (Canadian, b. 1976) is Cree from Sawridge First Nation, Treaty 8, with a strong connection to Slave Lake. Draney’s work is acquired by institutional and private collectors, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Embassy of Canada Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Alberta, and the Sobey Collection. She holds a BA in English and a BFA in Painting from the University of Alberta, as well as an MA from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She won both the 2009 RBC Painting Competition and 2014’s Eldon and Anne Foote Visual Arts Prize in Edmonton and was short-listed for the 2016 Sobey Art Award. Her practice is based on her experiences and relationships formed. Draney’s work provides just enough information for viewers to place their own narrative, encouraging an empathic approach to spatial voids.