Raaz Pourfazli

Raaz Pourfazli

Jeannie Thib Emerging Artist Residency Recipient Raaz Pourfazli is an art historian and type enthusiast based in Toronto. Her artistic practice merges her passion for words and letters with collective memories from her homeland, Iran. Central to her work is the exploration of the impact of displacement on bodies, which she views as containers of…

Gabrielle Tyrie

Gabrielle Tyrie

Jeannie Thib Emerging Artist Residency Recipient Gabrielle Tyrie is a photographer and artist based out of Toronto, Canada. She specializes in cyanotype. As a medium, it connects her to photography’s past and its origins. It is scientific and requires applied technique. She is inspired by materials as a means to explore, art history, science and…

Eva Francis-Work

Eva Francis-Work

Emerging Printmaker Scholarship Residency Recipient Eva Francis-Work has just concluded her undergraduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan, completing a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and her Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degrees. These two subject areas have formed the basis for her artwork, each influencing the other with a recent focus on self-expression. Using…

Samsam Elmi

Emerging Artist Member Residency Recipient in honour of Jeannie Thib Samsam Elmi (she/her) is a Toronto-based artist, who holds an honours BFA in Visual Art from York University. Mainly utilizing the intaglio and screenprinting processes, she focuses on the exploration of mark-making juxtaposed with representational imagery. She begins with a phrase or sentiment that organically…

Karen Kar Yen Law

Karen Kar Yen Law

Emerging Printmaker Scholarship Residency Recipient Karen Kar Yen Law (she/her) is a first-generation Cantonese Chinese-Canadian who lives and practices in Tkaronto. Law is a recent graduate from Queen’s University with a BFA (Honours) and BEd. Her practice blends printmaking and painting techniques to produce an artistic approach that is intuitive and reactive. Through the language…

Victoria Day

Victoria Day

Jeannie Thib Mentorship Residency Recipient Victoria Day creates screenprints, murals, and drawings that examine themes of gender, self-indulgence, and mental health through an autobiographical lens. She is inspired by the duality of the internal – the mind, identity, thought – and the external – the body, society, and action. Her practice explores the fluctuating relationship…

Lavinia Lindsay

Lavinia Lindsay

Don Phillips Scholarship Residency Recipient Lavinia Lindsay grew up in Niagara Falls Ontario, which has been a major source of inspiration for her work. She is a recent graduate of the University of Guelph Bachelor of Arts program, where she was first introduced to printmaking in 2015. She is now focused on intaglio etching, mezzotint,…

Mark Bath

Mark Bath

Jeannie Thib Emerging Artist Residency Mark Bath is a visual artist from Newfoundland. At Memorial University, he studied Dramatic Literature and Creative Writing and later pursued a Bachelor of Design in Illustration at OCADU. While at OCADU, Bath fell in love with the process of creating copper plate etchings and completed a series of intricately…

Nix Burox

Nix Burox

Don Phillips Scholarship Residency Recipient Nix Burox is a non-binary trans artist based in Montreal. Interested in process-oriented art, their work references archiving practices and takes the form of modular interactive art objects such as sets of cards, artist books, and installations. Using autobiography as a tool to discuss issues of identity and mental health,…