Elsie Joe is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up on the outskirts of Merritt B.C. Since childhood, she has had an interest in arts and crafts, often found creating works in mud and rocks or drawing and painting where she shouldn’t. At her mother’s urging, she enrolled in Thompson Rivers University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts…
Born in Vancouver, Janet McChesney spent most of her life in Toronto. After gaining an HBA in Economics and Political Science, she worked in various managerial roles with a global corporation and visited many areas of the world. This gave her the opportunity to learn about different cultures and art. Not until retirement did Janet…
A Chinese international student, Ma Junxiang came to Canada in 2014. Through his Fine Arts studies, Jun found his niche in painting and his current body of work focuses on that interest. The first of his large scale series Observation Through Water, looks at water surfaces and how, even though transparent, the fluctuations of that…
Kaitlyn Heaney was born and raised in Kamloops and was fortunate to spend a year with extended family in the Yukon. After working fulltime for four years to fund her post-secondary education, she enrolled in Thompson Rivers University. There she furthered her skills in drawing and began painting. Drawing has always been a part of…
Artist’s Statement Colour Digital Photo Series – Who’s Who of North American Wildlife My work questions land use and colonization using photo-based artwork in reference to realism and created mythologies. Through photography, my subject of animals in fabricated settings asks questions. Epic depictions of taxidermied wildlife in sculptural and painted scenes show the animals as…
Laurie Mackie is an artist, photographer and writer currently residing in Barriere. After thirty-plus years in the accounting and taxation fields, she returned to school in 2011 determined to explore her love of words and the creation of story. Following the granting of her B.A. in Creative Writing and intrigued by the relationship between word…
An international student from China, Yue began her education at TRU in the BBA program. After two years, however, she returned to the arts which had been a major part of her life since childhood. Canada’s environment and geography broadened her artistic vision and concepts, giving her a new creative direction. Combining elements of Chinese…