Human Beings Have Met to Suture the Wounds the
Railroads Have Made Across This Country
Kevin Andrew Heslop (b. 1992) is a multidisciplinary artist of Canadian citizenship, Scottish-Danish ancestry, and
Buddhist practice. Trained as a musician, visual artist, and actor, in 2021 Heslop released his debut poetry
collection, the correct fury of your why is a mountain, with Gordon Hill Press, with curatorial debuts six feet |
between us (McIntosh Gallery) and in medias res (Westland Gallery) following in 2022 and 2023 respectively.
Kevin also works in film as a writer-director-producer, founding the Canadian indie Astoria Pictures in 2022 and
releasing in 2023 his directorial debut, mo(u)vements, a tetralingual, thirteen-part poetry anthology on film; and
its in this capacity that he arrives to Earthwise: he’ll be preparing to adapt to the screen Human Beings Have
Met to Suture the Wounds the Railroads Have Made Across This Country, a meditation first published by
Anstruther Press in 2020 upon the defence of unceded Wet’suwet’en lands from the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
Kevin’s latest contracted literary works include the rules of grammar will not save you at the hour of your
death (with Roxanna Bennett, Baseline Press, Spring 2024); Human Voices Wake Us (with P.F. Tego & T.M.
Graham, Rose Garden Press, Fall 2024); two books of non-fiction through the subject of Medical Assistance in
Dying, the first of which will appear with Gordon Hill Press in the Fall of 2025; and A Writing on the Wind’s Wall:
Artists in Dialogue, a two-volume collection of in-depth conversations with artists from around the world
(Guernica Editions, 2027 & 2028). Heslop regularly contributes in-depth conversations with leading Canadian
writers to The Miramichi Reader and with leading artists from all over the world to Parrot Art.
With support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, Heslop’s current work across
disciplines includes a comedy series starring Monika Schneider, Some Things Are Too Important to Take Seriously
and Art Is One of Those Things (writer-director, Astoria Pictures, Fall 2024); a vibrotactile ceramics installation
(with Roxanna Bennett & Leslie Putnam, 2025); an international documentary on the subject of Medical
Assistance in Dying (Astoria Pictures, 2026); an adaptation of his grandmother’s memoir, What Made Me Who I
Am; collaborations with professor Alissa Centivany, photographer Derek Boswell, and artist Remi Picó; a biopic
about Brazilian director José Celso (writer); a limited series about the Green Ribbon Task Force (writer-director);
and ongoing representation of the works of publishers Gordon Hill Press, Renaissance Press, and Invisible
Publishing at the Toronto International Film Festival.
A wandering polyvalence, Heslop works and lives at artist residencies around the world, most recently in Serbia,
Finland, France, and Brazil, with another Danish residency and a Japanese residency to follow in 2024.
