Andrew Michael French is an English-born abstract sculptor. A one-time pupil of Peter Hide, French is best known for upright, large-scale welded sculptures made of brightly painted steel.City of Edmonton Public Art Collection With sculptors Mark Bellows, Bianca Khan, Rob Willms, and Ryan McCourt, Andrew French is identified as part of the "Next Generation" of Edmonton Sculpture.Terry Fenton, "Edmonton Sculpture: The Next Generation," Harcourt Expressed, Volume 12, Summer/Fall 2002Mike Winters, "Fitting into the Modernist Mould," SEE Magazine, Issue #455, August 12–21, 2002
Educated at Newbury College (England), and Kent Institute of Art & Design with a BFA in Sculpture, French completed his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta in 1999.MFA final visual presentation, Andrew Michael French, University of Alberta, 1999 French's 1999 sculpture "Pillar" is located on the University of Alberta campus,From the Collections, "Uncovering Campus Treasures," New Trail, University of Alberta, May 12, 2014 his sculpture "Still Life" is in the collection of the CIty of Edmonton, installed in Belgravia Art Park and his small soldered brass piece "The Abduction of St. Paul" is in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.Art Collection, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Andrew French is a co-founder of the North Edmonton Sculpture Workshop.Piri Halasz, "From the Mayor's Doorstep" no. 86, 15 October 2009, Report From The West His sculptures have been seen in a number of important exhibitions in Edmonton, including the Chichester Festival, Big Things, the Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society, and the Alberta Centennial Sculpture Exhibition at the Royal Alberta Museum,Gilbert Bouchard, "Come to Expect 'Big Things'", Edmonton Journal, July 19, 2002Erik Floren, "Big Impressions", The Edmonton Sunday Sun, July 28, 2002Mike Berezowsky, "Sculpture Exhibit Gets a Big Response", Edmonton Examiner, September 11, 2002"Multiple Directions Merge In Single Exhibit”, Edmonton Journal, October 5, 2007Gilbert Bouchard, "Bianca Khan's One-Tonne Challenge", Edmonton Journal, July 23. and Sculpture by Invitation at the Shaw Conference Centre.
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