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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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)
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…
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. …