About

Artist Statement

July 2026

Kelly Jaclynn Andres (she/her) is an artist, educator, curator, and researcher working between a downtown studio in Edmonton and a rural lakeside studio near Ferintosh, Alberta, on Treaty 6 territory. Her practice intertwines ecological art, performance, sensory inquiry, and experimental media to explore how human and more-than-human worlds listen, grow, and sense together. Across these urban and rural sites, Andres develops systems in which biology, technology, and care converge, allowing lichen, duckweed, SCOBYs, weather, artificial intelligence, and human participants to share agency in processes of transformation.

Andres creates installations, performances, and participatory environments that unfold as living, time-based ecologies. Projects including You, Me, the Lichen & Spore, SaccharoSonics, and Latent Swamp engage ecological listening, fermentation, bioremediation, machine learning, and speculative design as poetic and ethical methods. Acts such as tending a microbial culture, cultivating water lentils, recording a landscape, or fine-tuning a locally hosted AI model become ways of attending to interdependence and the porous borders between bodies, technologies, and environments.

Through a practice she describes as tender curation, Andres creates unusual forms of participation that expand sensory awareness and deepen ecological relation. Her multisensory works operate as lively archives; unstable, collaborative environments in which growth and decay, signal and residue, and natural and computational processes remain entangled.

Land Acknowledgement

My studio is situated south of amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), within Treaty 6 territory on the traditional lands of the nêhiyawak (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Métis, Nakota Sioux, Saulteaux, and Dene peoples. I acknowledge their enduring relationships with these lands, waters, and skies.

As a settler artist, I approach this place with gratitude and responsibility. My work grows from its rhythms and from an awareness that artistic practice here is always entangled with layered histories of belonging and displacement.

Contact: kelly dot andres at gmail dot com