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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Throughout my life I have tried to emulate a holistic lifestyle. One that does not harm the environment but honours the resources of our land. Sometimes I expressed this through a vegan diet, due to my distaste for factory farming processes, but eventually I began to eat animal products again. When I did so I […]
What drives me as an artist is my concern for the human condition and finding inspiration in the resilience of human nature. Emotional in nature, my interdisciplinary practice expresses fragility, isolation, fragmentation and compartmentalization, while inspecting the phenomenon and social mechanisms of sexual predation developed and established by society through sophisticated social and cultural practices. […]