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I am a self-taught illustrator born and raised in Vancouver, BC. My family is from Hong Kong and it is my second home.

This thesis document outlines the key concepts and research practices I undertook to explore the aesthetics of mediating digital and analog logics through materiality and painterly abstraction. It culminated in a body of work of 8 paintings and a…

Born in Victoria, I've been playing music my whole life – piano and school band when I was younger, and then teaching myself guitar as a teenager and going out to play rock and/or roll music. Since then I've been in a few bands, the last…

This thesis explores the fluidity of language through the fusion of heterogenous visual traditions — creating hybrid forms and coded communication. It voyages through the linguistic landscape of India. Delving into its social, political and cultural…

My practice interrogates the space between an object and its ecology: the relationship between material practice and complex systems, such as living ecosystems, and the environments in which they are situated. My main interest is our current…

Through sculptural explorations using everyday objects and materials, my work investigates the potential for social transformation through material explorations in art. Drawing on strategies found in both art and design, I explore connections…

Granddaughter of shipbuilding japanese internment camp survivors who relocated back to the BC coast after the ban was lifted in the 50's. For the past 10 years Silke has been rediscovering her ancestral pull of the ocean through paintings,…

This research addresses the affects experienced by most people in response to the current climate crisis. Research in the fields of psychology and human behaviour have termed the negative-value emotion “climate-anxiety.” My research inquires into…

Identisploitation explores charged representations of identity in pop culture through painted paper figures, video art, and garments. The complicated public images of historical figures, including the iconic Black performer, Josephine Baker, are…

Music has been a lifelong hobby of mine. I've been interested in creating my own original music for a long time but was always scared that my songs will be trash. I finally took the leap in 2017 and published my first song. It's only been…

I was born and raised in Japan. When I came to Canada in the early nineties, I first landed in Toronto and then moved to Vancouver a few years later. Vancouver is a fascinating place where mountains and oceans meet and greyish urban setting in a…

This thesis explores how the movement, presentation and interaction of the body are learned through one’s identifier; gender, culture, nationality, race, religion, and social class. Expected norms to one’s mannerisms and way of being in the world is…

Pamela Chen is a first generation Chinese-Canadian illustrator based in Vancouver, Canada with a BFA in Visual Arts. She is enthralled by botanical and scientific illustrations, as well as tattoo culture and flash. Her work often combines unusual…

In the field of developmental psychology, mindfulness, or the state of present awareness, has shown promising results in enhancing self-regulation abilities in children in classroom settings. Such findings may suggest particular benefits to children…

In this thesis, I explore material and conceptual conversations between the physical and the mystical, the seen and unseen, the visible and not. I outline personal embodied experiences with religious practices and within sacred spaces as a grounding…

The following essay includes information that surrounds my investigations into the human desire to invest in objects. This writing accompanies questions concerning systems built for, by, and with things, as well as the possibilities of breaching…

My impetus as an artist is to promote a sense of nature connectedness in the public consciousness, with the understanding that this leads to more pro-environmental attitudes. I gain insights from Indigenous ecological perspectives, the science of…

I am a Japanese American student currently finishing up my undergraduate degree at UBC working from home. I am finishing up my degree in psychology and the idea of entering the workforce has been daunting yet exciting for me. I love to paint and…

The thesis titled Chasing the Light, delves into the experience of art through a phenomenological approach to painting. By examining the relationship between painting, embodied experiences, and the built environment, the artist incorporates the…

Hello! My name is Alexandra Bustos. I had just turned 23 a few weeks ago, and I have a passion for 2D Background painting. I enjoy reading, and indulging myself into forms of pop culture through comics. I often pursue creative writing communities…

I’m Crystal Chen, I usually go by Coco and I’m a 14 year old student that currently attends moscrop secondary school. I’ve always really enjoyed songwriting and I’ve been playing the piano since I was 4.

How do images and diagrams inform cultural identity and the navigation of social space? This is a core question motivating my art practice. To produce my artwork, I glean images and texts from magazine collections, which I deconstruct and…

Through painting, I rely on non-visual sensory information recorded in the woods to inform aesthetic decisions. Research happens in the act of painting. All visual and written references inform the collection of source material, but research happens…