Abode Liveable Art was founded to create a new way to bring art into the abode and to promote contemporary visual artists. The result is the creation of ‘liveable art’ - luxurious pillows that combine comfort and modern design.

A percentage of each pillow sale is given directly to the artist to support their craft.

Bio
Drew Khan is a multi-media artist who resides in Toronto. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, multiple scholarships and the OCAD medal for Printmaking.Using printmaking as his base he continues to explore materials, scale and techniques through his work. By pushing the limitations of the flat surface, he intends to create multi-dimensional models in which the viewer can be a participant.

Drew's work has been in a number of group shows from Toronto to New Zealand. His work has been published in publications such as Hive Magazine, Peace Magazine and Maclean's Magazine.

Artist statement
By exploring the urban composition, I take from my surroundings a sense of rhythm and perspective. The movement of daily life within this landscape has been a source of fascination and investigation. The linear progression from one space to another, the interaction with our settings and each other, has been a point of interest in my work. This energetic, playful and free flowing work focuses on rhythm, memory and the panorama of the everyday.

It is through these areas that I begin to construct a story, using images and stylized figures in playful arrangements. Figures are arranged and interact with backdrops both imaged and seen. Street corners, subway escalators and archive images are used to create a sense of theatre. The captured action takes place within familiar yet anonymous scenes that are encountered everyday. This momentary deactivation allows the viewer to construct a storyline and reanimate the event and characters as they cascade through the landscape.

Through the use of printmaking, there is an integration and progression of figures with background and movement with volume. There exists an illusion of space and depth allowing the viewer to witness the action and place themselves within its cast of figures.

Website: http://www.paintedbynumbers.com/

As photo-cartographer, Nelson French navigates the modern metropolis, mapping topographies and the flight of the city's denizens. This work reflects his interest in the aesthetics and sociology of urban spaces. Gillian MacKay of the Globe & Mail has said, ".his cinematic black-and-white images of distant pedestrians seen from above and at odd angles.suggest something of the alienated, dreamlike flow of T.S. Eliots "unreal city."

Nelson French is a Toronto-based freelance and fine art photographer and designer. His work has received critical attention in the Globe & Mail, The National Post, and Azure. His awarding-winning imagery can be found in many personal and corporate art collections.

Website: www.nelsonfrench.com

Bio
Heather Dubbeldam is Toronto-based architect and photographer who runs a multi-disciplinary design firm and architecture practice. Her photography work has been exhibited in galleries across Canada and has been published in numerous newspapers, books, and design magazines. Heather is represented in Toronto by the Ingram Gallery and Archive Gallery.

Vestiges short artist statement
Heather's painterly photographs explore the subtle mapping of text and texture on the urban fabric through tight perspectives. Form and mass are reduced to surface and one begins to lose sight of where or what is depicted. Microscopic views of graffiti, text and architectural details, all examine the subtle traces of human presence on the urban landscape.