Bio

Emily Andrews is a multi-media artist, actress, and musician from Niagara Falls, Ontario. She works in a variety of media, including oil painting, collage, installation art, and sculpture. A true surrealist at heart, her work is often inspired by science, nature, history, and her own strange dreams. A vibrant member of the Niagara region arts community, Emily has participated in events such as Niagara Night of Art and In the Soil Arts Festival. In 2012, the Ontario Trillium Foundation chose her as an artist in residence and in 2014 she was the recipient of the Allister Young Arts & Culture Endowment Fund. She received a diamond award for best local artist for the 2020 Readers’ Choice Awards and in 2021 was a recipient of the Niagara Falls Cultural Development Fund. Her work has been shown in many group and solo exhibitions and can be found in both private and public collections. Her most recent series, Strange Happenings & Rare Findings, features surrealistic oil paintings that explore bizarre and unexplained scenarios in a mid-century setting. Emily has a BA in Visual Arts from Brock University and has taught in the visual arts departments at Niagara College and Brock University.