Andi Syme (they/ them) is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Syme graduated from the University of Guelph with a BA(Honours) in Studio Art and Sexualities, Genders and Social Change. With focus on figures in community, they expressively explore autobiographical themes of neuro-queer and trans* identity, community, and safe spaces. Syme primarily works through charcoal drawings on soft domestic objects to share joy and understanding.

”The structures we live in pose an ongoing challenge to finding comfort in our bodies. Despite this, comfort regrows out of warm and soft spaces, where we are able to imagine and regenerate. 

Within the desaturated planes, figures bond and interact with a sense of freedom, play, or absurdity. Reflecting the nuance of finding joy and euphoria through their historical bodies, the figures continue to dance in their plurality, recognizing the fuel joy gifts in upholding resiliency. Their boundless bodies bloom, reshape, and rework their assumed limits, harvesting with them grit, flexibility, and connection. Inviting you into their curious world, the interwoven figures play in the environment of uncertainty, open to surprise and new constructions of self.“