David Brandy is an award-winning lens-based artist. The essence of his art is in finding and making what at first glance may seem to be the ordinary, and then encouraging it to bring out its strangeness, and then bending that again to find its true beauty. His sense of joy delights in the fact that it may take a moment or two for his images to reveal themselves to you. Brandy's ongoing series, "Newer Topographics", creates a canvas that emphasizes the strong sense of isolation humankind feels due to the juxtaposition of natural landscape with solitary manmade constructs. In March 2022, Brandy was presented with two 15th Annual International Color Awards in Los Angeles. His art was short-listed for the prestigious 2021 Aesthetica Art Prize, resulting in two of his images on display at the York Art Gallery, UK. He received an Emerging Artists by Emerging Curator Award at the 2019 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. He was a short-listed finalist in both the Quest Art 2018 National Art Prize, and the 2017 Salt Spring National Art Prize, one of Canada’s largest celebrations of contemporary art. Brandy’s art is collected across North America.
