Artist Biographys

Sandra Bromley

Sandra Bromley is an internationally recognized artist whose works have appeared in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and North America. Her multidisciplinary, interactive art includes  traditional sculpture as well as video, sound, photography, and installation. She works independently and in collaboration with artists and professionals in other disciplines.

Over the last ten years, Sandra has been working on a series of thematic artworks based on issues related to conflict and peace. The most ambitious  artwork in this series is The Gun Sculpture (a collaborative work with Wallis Kendal), a five-ton installation composed of the gun sculpture itself, a multimedia victims' component, and a cumulative and ongoing documentation of visitor interaction of over 150,000 contributions. The installation toured three continents and has been viewed by over one and a half million people. From that major work has come a series of responses to war and violence, visualized through a variety of media from photography and video to larger installations such as FIRE. 


Graduating from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1979 with a BFA (Distinction) in sculpture, Bromley has received numerous awards  throughout her career, including the 2000 Salute to Excellence Arts Award from the City of Edmonton, a 2002-03 Canadian Consortium for Human Security Fellowship (artworks concerned with issues of women and children in post-conflict countries) that took her to work in Sierra Leone and Cambodia, a Global Woman of Vision Award in 2006, and a 2009 Honoured Alumni Award from the University of Alberta.


Wallis Kendal

Wallis Kendal is an visual artist, writer, designer of children's toys, social activist, and world traveller.  He has published novels, plays and poetry with prestigious publishers.

Tagged as the “Pied Piper” of street youth, Wallis has been involved with art and youth for the last 35 years. He has travelled extensively throughout the world, hiked to Mount Everest and throughout the mountains of Peru, where he retraced the Inca steps to Machu Pichu. He's climbed the Mountains of the Moon on the border of Uganda and Rwanda, and had the privilege of observing a family of Apes in the forest of Zaire.

Wallis was recognized by the City of Edmonton in Arts Achievement, in Time Magazine (Canadian Edition, 2005) as a Canadian Hero for his work with High Risk Youth, and with an Alumni Honor Award from the University of Alberta for his commitment to service. Presently, Wallis is working on two books, the Gun Sculpture, with Sandra Bromley, and a biography on his encounters with youth.