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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Stephanie Vandamme
I just feel that I am always looking to understand more about myself and this world. Making collages feels like going on a journey. It starts from a point of not feeling part of this world – mostly because of my hearing challenges. But then when I sit down somewhere on a bench in the […]
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Rory Neirin Higgs
Neirin is a non-binary artist, writer and disability activist living and working in Vancouver. Their work focuses on the concept of automythology, or self-mythologizing, as a type of parallel life narrative traumatized people create to make sense of our experiences in a private, sacred vocabulary that is protected from outsider retelling, and to crystallize in […]
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Janelle Resendes
I am an artist with cerebral palsy and rely on a power wheelchair for mobility. I went to university to study art and I have continued to follow my heart and create on a continuous basis. I use many different mediums and believe that working with a variety adds diversity to my artistic process. Being […]
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Bug Cru
I’m Bug, an interdisciplinary visual artist, illustrator and tattooist; weaving my creative practice with my heart, voice and livelihood. I bring myself with the perspectives of being a white, mixed, mad, disabled, queer and trans person. Feeling the world visually, art has always been an intrinsic focus. I am drawn deeply to the complexity of […]
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Laurie Landry
I have been profoundly deaf since birth. In order to understand what is being said, I read lips, and I often miss important details, despite the fact that I wear a hearing aid. I compensate this by looking for visual clues such as body language, facial expressions and context. I have incorporated my experience of […]
Jasmine Sanchez-Ziller
I am 26 years old and for the past seven years I have been mostly housebound/bedridden with a complex chronic illness known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, aka M.E./CFS (you can find the rest of my bio at my website)
Natalia Bogolepova
I started artist’s biography with a drawing-book in the school. Later I tried to paint by watercolors and oil in several studios in different periods of my life where there was very creative atmosphere but significant part of my life I devoted to medicine as a science. In the after 50 age I immigrated to […]
Erella Ganon
Erella Ganon is an artist who has been illustrating her experiences in journals for the majority of her life. She has plied her trade as a reviewer and journalist for NOW Magazine, CKLN-FM, CFNY-FM, and CBC radio and CBC TV. In 1998, she was diagnosed with the first of several brain tumours and contracted a […]