Andrew French (sculptor)
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Andrew Michael French is an England, English-born abstract art, abstract sculpture, sculptor. A one-time pupil of Peter Hide, French is best known for upright, large-scale welded sculptures made of brightly painted steel.City of Edmonton Public Art Collection
/ref> With sculptors Mark Bellows, Bianca Khan, Robert Willms, Rob Willms, and Ryan McCourt, Andrew French is identified as part of the "Next Generation" of Edmonton Sculpture.Terry Fenton, "Edmonton Sculpture: The Next Generation," Harcourt Expressed, Volume 12, Summer/Fall 2002 Educated at Newbury College (England), and Kent Institute of Art & Design with a BFA in Sculpture, French completed his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta in 1999.MFA final visual presentation, Andrew Michael French, University of Alberta, 1999
/ref> French's 1999 sculpture "Pillar" is located on the University of Alberta campus, his sculpture "Still Life" is in the collection of the CIty of Edmonton, installed in Belgravia Art Park and his small soldered brass piece "The Abduction of St. Paul" is in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Andrew French is a co-founder of the North Edmonton Sculpture Workshop. His sculptures have been seen in a number of important exhibitions in Edmonton, including the Chichester Festival, Big Things, the Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society, and the Alberta Centennial Sculpture Exhibition at the Royal Alberta Museum,Gilbert Bouchard, "Come to Expect 'Big Things'", Edmonton Journal, July 19, 2002Erik Floren, "Big Impressions", The Edmonton Sunday Sun, July 28, 2002Mike Berezowsky, "Sculpture Exhibit Gets a Big Response", Edmonton Examiner, September 11, 2002 and Sculpture by Invitation at the Shaw Conference Centre.


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