Sandy Middleton

Sandy Middleton is a mixed media photographic artist who resides in St.Catharines, Ontario. This current body of paper and encaustic sculptural works, came from solitary time, and forced isolation. During the lockdown of Covid, I began by organizing the chaos of the external by carefully dissecting time into small manageable moments. From this I created little pieces of reconnected imagery, then layering and fusing them together. Thereby rearranging the images, much like our lives in the way that we are all a bit different from how we were before, still recognizable yet shifted. The water series represents our reintegration, water as a metaphor, hard to contain and somewhat intangible , the perfect subject to describe ourselves as we moved to the next phase after lockdown and our release into the world.
Sandy's work has been collected internationally and she was nominated as one of 52 finalists for the Salt Spring National Arts Award and is the recipient of several Ontario Arts Council Grants.