Audra Townsend

Audra Townsend is a self-taught free-spirited British-born Jamaican Canadian abstract and mixed media artist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a trained Sociocultural Anthropologist who believes that, as humans, art is a manifestation of our curiosity about the material world and, as such, an essential part of what it means to be human. She borrows from intuitive and tactile (abstract) art forms to explore this relationship between art and the human experience. Her work is characterized by a dense network of crisscrossing (and squiggly) lines separating rectangles of multiple shapes, made of different materials, earthy and celestial colours and textures from her use of materials such as sand, stone and, recently, Shin Noodle packaging.
She holds an MA in Anthropological Research from the University of Manchester in England. She has honours degrees in Social-Cultural Anthropology and Administrative Studies from York University in Toronto. Audra’s work has been exhibited in Brussels, Halton/Georgetown, Madrid, Seoul, Toronto, and Vancouver.