Drew is an artist and curator, balancing his craft between programming galleries in Berlin and Toronto. He is a past graduate of the TSA diploma program and has gone on to exhibit in NYC, Paris, London, Berlin, LA, Madrid, Cologne, Basel, Chicago, and Miami as well as being included in various Canadian institutions such as The Power Plant, National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta, Mendel Art Gallery and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Simpson’s surreal miniature paintings are renowned for being exceptionally detailed, precisely rendered and always paying homage to an invisible aristocracy. The appropriation of visual language in Simpson’s work is beholden to classic masters, yet they are full of modern anachronisms and images that defy one art historical context, but remain governed by the same concerns: mortality, elusive beauty and brutal truth.