A collection of drawings created as demonstrations to teach students various drawing techniques. These examples show grid portraits using found photographs, drawing live models (gestures) and self portraits.

Created while teaching VCAD students live and online, 2018- 2022.

Canvas/seat, Canvas/notebook

2023

Mixed media (canvas, ink, tarp, twine, cardboard, foam, nylon webbing, notebook, pencil + sharpener, clothespin), 22” x 22” and 16” x 16”

This interactive sculpture, created for the exhibition Fieldwork, invites viewers to perform an embodied act of attentiveness to trees. Through a simple set of instructions, viewers are engaged and invited to record their experiences and “imaginings” while listening to trees. Lake Country Art Gallery, Lake Country BC. Made with support from the BC Arts Council. 

Photos by Andreas Rutkauskas (gallery)
and Steph Townsend (outside)

Tree Chair Prototype

2023

found chair, nylon webbing, ratchet straps

This site specific sculpture was created for a project titled Forest Encounters. It was installed on unceded Musqueum, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh land, also known as Pacific Spirit Park, Vancouver BC.
Made with support from Canada Council for the Arts. 

Drawing Our Collective Body

2022

paper, tape

Created during a micro-residency at Access Art Gallery with fellow artists: Annie Briard, prOphecy sun, Monique Motut-Firth and Melanie Nugent-Noble.

Maquette and Prototype for Garment for a Cougar

2021

Created as part of an artist micro-residency that I co-organized, titled Collective Enquiries, which took place at Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna BC. Residency artists included: Annie Briard, prOphecy sun, Melany Nugent-Noble, Tara Nicholson, Andreas Rutkauskas and Scott Massey.

Persistence (WOMAN)

2021

Nylon, PCV pipe, ladder, turf staples, nylon thread

5 outdoor sculptural installations created for 5 performance artists.

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Curated by Maiko Yamamoto. Burnaby BC

Emergency Blanket

cotton, mixed fibres, cotton batting, plywood, emergency blanket (vacuum-metalized polyethylene)

2019

Exhibited in a group studio exhibition, titled 13Suite15, curated by M.E. Sparks and Matthis Grunsky, Vancouver BC

Entanglement #1

Mixed fibre yarn, coat hanger, cable

2017

Solo exhibition at Dynamo Arts Association, titled Material Assemblies.

SiteFactory: Mobile Art Platform is an artist-run gallery in a converted school bus created by Leah Weinstein, who founded, curated and operated the bus-as-gallery. The mandate of SiteFactory is to bring art exhibitions and performances to unconventional sites throughout Vancouver, exploring a range of site-specific locations through this roaming venue.

Between June 2016- November 2018, SiteFactory hosted 13 artist projects, ranging from sculpture exhibitions to sound performances and social practice installations.

MOBILE BARNACLE CITY LIVE/WORK STUDIO was a site-specific installation created in the SiteFactory bus by Vancouver Interdisciplinary artist Laiwan, as part of Emily Carr University’s LivingLabs Ten Different Things project series.

Invited artists included T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss and Anne Riley. Mobile Barnacle City took place at three locations in the vicinity of Keefer and Columbia Streets in Chinatown from April 15th- 29th, 2018.

Agente Costura: Itinerant Sewing Station, Lisa Simpson and Ben Brown. SiteFactory Mobile Art Platform, located at 6th & Ontario Streets. Co-presented by SIX FEST (prOphecy sun and Jenny Lee Craig), supported by the Vancouver Foundation and Neighbourhood Small Grants

The Renegade Library: a mail art project by Lois Klassen, co-produced by VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver BC 2016

The Renegade Library: a mail art project by Lois Klassen, co-produced by VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver BC 2016

Unconventional Practices. An evening of artist talks by: Laiwan, Jay White, prOphecy sun and Kristoff Steinruck. Vancouver BC 2016