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Sandra Bromley is a Canadian artist.

Bromley earned her BFA in 1979 at the University of Alberta. She is noted for her anti-war and anti-violence artwork, such as her Gun Sculpture with Wallis Kendal. In 1997, she co-founded iHuman Youth Society with Kendal, a non-profit group that works with at-risk youth in Edmonton. Her artwork has been exhibited at the United Nations and the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize. She was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2012, receiving the Queen's Jubilee Medal the same year.

The Art of Peacemaking: The Gun Sculpture
“One of the things the sculpture does is force us to think about violence… what we can do to contribute to the culture of peace” --Justice minister Anne McLellan )

Unveiled in Edmonton in early 2000, this five-tonne sculpture was co-created by Bromley and Wallis Kendal. It was a vision of i human 2000 Peace Initiative and took two years to build. The Canadian Millennium Bureau provided funding as well as private donations. Composed of 7,000 deactivated weapons such as landmines, machine-guns and knives donated to the artists by Canadian and international sources, the walk-in structure resembles a prison cell. The sculpture is paired with multimedia components depicting victims of war, and crimes of violence like domestic abuse. Since its debut, the work has been toured around the world from world’s fair in Hanover, Germany (2000), to New York City to Soeul, Korea.