“Whether representational, expressive, abstract, every act of artistic expression is the result of an interview. And as such, at the moment of standing in front of a thought, or idea, or thing, or person, or landscape, the interview begins. The greeting, the exchange of pleasantries, the search for connection. The search. Then the simultaneous opening. At times tentative, at times confident. More often than not, without thought. An opening up to the two-way free flow of information, sometimes accurate, at times not. And yet with some holdback. More exploration, much more. Then the agreement.”

Andrew Cheddie Sookrah is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists, the Ontario Society of Artists and the Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario.

He was born in 1956 in Guyana, South America and attended Queen’s College where he won the school Art Prize in 1971. At age 16 he took employment as a designer/illustrator/art director at Ace Advertisers in Georgetown. On immigrating to Canada in 1974, he attended The Ontario College of Art, George Brown College and Ryerson University in their part-time continuing education programs.

An active member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, Andrew Cheddie Sookrah has served several terms on their Art Committee. He is currently the convenor of the Sunday Figurative Painting Sessions at the Club.

Andrew Cheddie Sookrah has displayed his work at the Outdoor Art Show at City Hall, Distillery District Art Shows, and group shows with Arts Scarborough. He has been included in many juried group shows at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. In 2004 he staged his first solo show of figurative work at the Club – Interviews from the Third Floor – Various Positions. His work has been included in two juried shows put on by the SCA, the 38th Annual in Montreal and the Spring Show at the Art Gallery of Northumberland in Coburg. In 2005, his second solo show, Parallel States Of Being, was staged at The Lodge on Amherst Island. In 2006 Andrew participated in the Annual Queen West Art Crawl at the Gladstone Hotel as well as Arctic Quest 06 group shows at the Win Henstock Gallery, the Georgina Art Gallery, the Gallery on the Grand in Waterloo Ontario, and the Linkway Gallery at the TD Centre in Toronto. 2006 also included two solo exhibitions, the Lawless Gallery in Grafton and the Engine Room Creative Gallery. His third and fourth solo shows “Heat Rising In A Cold Place” were held in 2007 and 2008.He is currently the owner and creative director of Engine Room Creative, a creative and design development studio in Toronto. His work can be found in Corporate and Private Collections in Canada and the US.