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ARTIST BIOS:
Han is an illustrator and ceramicist from Qingdao, China. Merging these two practices through personal drawings and an appreciation for handbuilt ceramics, her works are both functional and playful. Her choice to handbuild each work ensures that no two objects are the same, leaving open the space for difference. She currently lives on the unceded territories of Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam First Nations.
Zion Greene-Bull (they/them) is a mixed Guyanese, non-binary tattooist and graphic artist living on unceded Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh land. Their art practice focuses on (but isn’t limited to) mental health, joy and silliness, gender euphoria, Black history and Black Joy.
Robin N. is a Vancouver-based graphic artist and designer, he graduated from Emily Carr in 2020 with a Bachelor in Visual Art and a Minor in Art + Text. In addition to his visual art practice, Robin is the founder of the publishing imprint Crisis Editions. Crisis Editions regularly appears in artist book fairs and titles are carried at select specialty bookstores.
Sarah Leavitt is the author of the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2010) and the horror/historical fiction comic Agnes, Murderess (2019). Her current project is a collection of short comics about grief and loss following the medically-assisted death of her partner in 2020. Sarah is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at UBC, where she has developed and taught undergraduate and graduate comics classes since 2012. More of her work can be found at sarahleavitt.com and on Instagram at @sarah_leav.
Alia Hijaab is an artist, animator, and storyteller based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh first nations. In her practice Alia muses on the construction of memory and belonging, and draws from her experience as a Syrian, an immigrant, and mixed-race person. Combining food symbology, nostalgic colour scapes, and poetry, her animations and illustrations welcome the viewer in and ask them to stay a while.
Rawan Hassan is an artist based on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh. Her main focus is on making work that reflects the world around, along with displaying alternatives of what could be. She does so by creating work that plays with patterning, linework and pencil drawings. She is interested in working between realism and the abstract. By bridging the two together her goal is to create imagery that explores culture, current issues, and identity.
karen shangguan is an illustrator and author, who creates poetic narratives of quiet things such as thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Her work features a warm and earthy undertone, reminiscent of the human touch and the natural world.
Nandita Ratan is a Hyderabad-Vancouver based Illustrator who works with story telling, creating visual narratives and representing South Asian culture. Her works explores the everyday and seeing beauty and magic in the mundane.
Paige Jung 健菁 is an illustrator, muralist and small-business owner based in “Vancouver”, Canada. Her work uses bold colours to craft stories and bring concepts to life, centred on themes of community and experiences of the Asian diaspora. Throughout the years as a self-taught illustrator, she has honed her creativity, style and craft. Paige’s uplifting and colourful work is her vehicle to tell important stories and connect with others. Paige has worked with clients and stockists such as Anthropologie, BC Housing, English Cosmos Co., Fairtrade Canada, Grosvenor – Property Americas, Hua Foundation, Hudson Pacific Properties, Larry’s Market, Rennie & Associates Realty Ltd., and Vancity Credit Union. She currently works in Chinatown, Vancouver surrounded by her favourite books and her abnormally large printer named Norm.
My name is Dana Kearley. I am a chronically ill and disabled artist and illustrator on unceded territory belonging to the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC). I like to explore the complexities and nuances of living in a sick and disabled body while playfully exploring colour, texture, shape, light and shadow. I like to take inspiration from vintage animation and illustration, The Memphis Group, Film, vintage fashion, pop culture and general nostalgia.
Leanne Inuarak-Dall is an emerging Inuk and settler multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator based on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Through collage, textiles, beadwork and sculpture, her work seeks to articulate the stories embedded in materials. She co-curated TETHER, a featured exhibition for the 2022 Arctic Arts Summit at the Yukon Arts Centre. Her work has been featured in Nagvaaqtavut | What We Found for WAG-Qaumajuq and UofTMed Magazine. She works as a contributing editor for the Inuit Art Quarterly.
Britney Yan is a designer & illustrator based in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded territory of the Squamish Nations. She enjoys working out of her sketchbook, translating observations of the people and places around her into illustrations, and capturing the simple yet special moments of daily life.
