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GOLDbard

GOLDbard creates art for the mad queerdo in all of us. From Princess Monsters to their Queeroes of Canada series, each line celebrates the ones who stand bravely in the face of conformity and lift their middle finger to the sky, declaring for all to see that they WILL NOT sit down, shut up or […]

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JOSEPH MORRISSETTE

AS A YOUNG MAN, JOSEPH COMPLETED A DEGREE IN REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT WHICH LED TO A SUCCESSFUL CAREER. UNFORTUNATELY, IN 2009 JOSEPH WAS IN A SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT, RESULTING IN BRAIN TRAUMA WHICH MADE HIM UNABLE TO WORK. AND THEN, FIVE YEARS AGO, MORE TRAGEDY STRUCK WHEN JOSEPH HAD A STOKE, LEAVING HIM PARTIALLY PARALYZED. […]

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Rose Poon

Rose Poon is a Chinese-Canadian and Hong Kong born cartoonist and illustrator who works enthusiastically with fine art paintings, digital arts, textiles, storytelling, and collaborative site-specific performance. Her work, in general, shows her love of animals, nature, and children. Since 2011, her work reveals genuine evidence of true love towards animals as Rose had developed […]

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Johnny Tiger

My name is Johnny Tai, I’m a totally blind, partially deaf martial-arts instructor living in Richmond, BC. I have recently concluded an Arts Residency with Vancouver’s Grunt Gallery (concluded April 15th, 2023), have recently participated in a “Disability Arts Market” at the BMO Theatre (February, 2023) and will be taking part in a group show on the theme of […]

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Sherry Leigh Williams

Alberta born of Métis and Celtic roots, this history, as well as a love of nature, color and the delight in the muse, influences my work. My traditional homeland is Mahaska, Alberta, which is part of treaty 6, and 8 and also the home of the Anishinaabe, Dene-zaa, Nêhiyawak, Secwépemc, Stoney Nakoda, and Métis. I […]

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Veronique West

Veronique is a non-binary artist, facilitator, and peer mental health advocate of Polish descent, based on unceded and occupied Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. Their practice is informed by their lived experience of mental health disability and chronic physical illness. Veronique collaboratively creates and dramaturgs in-person and digital performances. Through fragmented aesthetics, their work explores […]

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Ilirijan Xhediku

I’m a self-taught action painter with a mental illness. I studied Willem de Kooning and other abstract expressionists. Spirituality, emotion and colour are essential to my work.  I studied drawing at Langara College. At the Art Studios, I was trained in pastels, watercolour, drawing, and acrylics. Since 2008, I”ve taught myself oil painting techniques and […]

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Ysabelle Vautour

My process often begins with taking photos I like to capture the stuff of slam poetry that visceral true authentic experience the kind of untold story fascinates me. I use an art journal where do a lot of reflection is a kind of art therapy to process how I’m feeling. Then I move on to […]

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Lawrence Shapiro

Artist Statement Lawrence Shapiro is a validated Deaf and Disability Artist with the Canada Council for the Arts and a past grant recipient from the B.C. Arts Council. A dancer for over a decade Lawrence has performed in London, Vienna, New York, Toronto and Vancouver at dance festivals and for commissioned choreography. One of his […]