Nationality Canadian Name Andrew Dold | Role Artist | |
Born 9 November 1969 (age 54) ( 1969-11-09 ) Barrie, Canada Known for Multi Media art, Installation art, teacher Awards THE CANSON FINE ART MATERIALS AWARD
THE CPSA AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL MERIT | ||
ImpactED - Developing a Learning Culture with Andrew Dold
Andrew Dold (born 1969) is a contemporary artist and school teacher living in Ontario Canada.
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Life and work
Although trained as a sculptor and painter, at the age of 32 he began to draw using coloured pencils for the first time. Between 2005 and 2006 he entered his first coloured pencil drawings in two separate international competitions held by the Colored Pencil Society of America. His work was published in The Artist's Magazine as well as International Artist magazine due to winning both competitions. At this time he was recognised by Gerald Peters, one of the world's most respected dealers of American art of nineteenth and twentieth centuries and was invited to show in his gallery in New York. In 2007 Prismacolor approached Dold with a view to using his award-winning picture "All is not Lost" on their new line of watercolour pencil crayons, and later that year Prismacolor introduced the product with Dold's picture on the tin. In 2007–2008 Andrew Dold's work was used by the Strathmore Hall to help promote an upcoming event of colored pencil works. Andrew Dold has also help to create several music CD covers for Cameron Austin, both in 2008 and more recently in 2010.
Since 2009, Dold has become heavily involved in culture jamming. Wanting to move away from presenting work in traditional settings, he creates murals using a variety of media on billboards, signs by the side of the road, interactive instillation works around his home of Toronto, Ontario, and abroad.
As an educator, Andrew Dold is an innovative teacher that is creating new models of learning. His students undertake original projects that challenge the boundaries of learning set within a unique classroom environment. Andrew is currently exploring Challenged Based Inquiry with his students integrating the community around him in real world projects.