About Me
Biography
I'm a Nonbinary/Genderqueer, Trans, Queer artist from Grand Valley, Ontario, Canada. Currently attending OCAD University in Toronto for my BFA.
Although much of my work focusses on gender and sexuality, I also enjoy making cute things that bring people joy.
I use they/them pronouns.
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I live and work on the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the New Credit, the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat(Wyandot), the Métis, the Oneida, and the Algonquin peoples. I recognise that much of this land is unceded, or has been taken by force.
Colonization is not a thing of the past- it is ongoing in many forms. It is vital that we acknowledge and stand up for the rights of indigenous peoples- the right to clean water, the right to sovereignty, the right to speak their own languages and engage in important cultural practices. The right to be safe from policing. The right to raise their own children. The right to safety and respect and dignity.
We must always strive towards reconciliation.
Artist Statement
I am digital artist and animator interested in gender, sexuality, and in-between spaces of all kinds. I work in a variety of artistic mediums, including digital comics, 2D animation, 3D modelling and digital drawing and painting. When working with queer subject matter, my handling ranges significantly- with some works being lighthearted and joyful, and others somber- but at its core all my work seeks to uncover the obscured and make space for those who, like myself, are discarded and dismissed, or remembered in ways they do not wish to be.
I am interested in the past and the way it affects our current frameworks of identity. I seek to depict those of us who existed and have been entirely erased or have had their orientations concealed to be rendered more palatable to a cisheteronormative audience, and to make space in historical imagined spaces for us.
I have also done several works exploring the liminal spaces in both gender and humanity- I feel there is a kinship between non-human or supernatural figures (i.e. the fae) and queer people, because of the way we exist outside a normative space, and are persecuted for it. I have also made pieces memorializing victims of bashings and other hate crimes, discussing the way language around our deaths and suffering blames us for that suffering, and the way language is used to refer to us in the present calls upon that historical trauma. I think it is vital for us to remember our histories and our elders, and to be the ones to speak the truth of our existence and persistence.