Shae Myles (she/her) likes kissing, noodles, birthdays, and asking uncomfortable questions. She graduated from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, in 2020, and is a multidisciplinary artist and community facilitator.

Shae is based in Glasgow, Scotland, and is currently making work that is playful and colourful, drawing inspiration from early 00s kids TV shows, magazines and toys. The context of this research examines different perspectives of the past, in regards to ideas of play, consumer culture and the everyday.

Hunger, sex, thirst... three of our most basic carnal impulses. By highlighting these urges and the links they can often share, My Mouth Misses You focuses on ideas of mess, ritual, excess and fetish.

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Carlee Thompson (she/they) is an emerging artist currently practicing in on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, the Musqueam, Squamish, and Sel̓íl̓witulh Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver, BC.

With a focus on ceramics, installation, and sculpture, Thompson’s work explores a constant desire to find discomfort/comfort, embodiment, and dissolution in everyday life. Through the expression of human behaviour and identity Thompson's work operates within the hauntingly mundane by questioning personal perceptions of being and individualistic culture.

Thompson is working towards receiving her Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2022). She has received the Jessie Allan Forsyth Memorial Scholarship (2019) as well as the Clay Foundation Visual Arts Award (2018).

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Rudra Manani (she/her) is a contemporary artist residing on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen, Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ nations - otherwise known as Victoria, B.C. She graduated from the University of Victoria in 2020, and is a multidisciplinary artist with a current focus on painting.

​ As an abstract painter, Manani relies on intuitive notions both to build a composition and to subsequently find a way to reconcile the work. However, in every day life, she is often anxiously gripped with the desire for certainty. She is interested in how this process parallels to the tension between choosing the rigorous lure of capitalist principles, or embracing the risk of the tantalizing unknown. This battle comes to fruition in her work, with the latter triumphing, as Manani utilizes numerous diluted washes of paint to intuitively form a resolution along the way.

foul weather is a reference to the emotional terrain of both the day-to-day and a universal anxiety. By employing a generally ominous colour palette and situating the viewer in an ambiguous interior space, this work aims to emphasize the vulnerable state that the pandemic has left us in.

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Georgia Tooke (she/her) is a contemporary artist and Visual Arts honours graduate from University of Victoria. She is based on the unceded lands of the Lekwungen people, the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ nations, otherwise known as Victoria, BC.

She likes to tell the truth by lying. Tooke is drawn to using character performance as a medium because of how fictional characters can be used as a vehicle to depict our collective and individual realities. People are often more receptive and understanding when consuming the truth dressed up as fiction. It’s this bouncing back and forth between reality and fiction where vulnerability, truth and empathy lie. Her focus in character work takes shape in three ways: live performance, video installation and object collages. The first two involve outrageous, often campy, costumes, makeup and wigs performing before a live audience or a camera alone in a studio. Whereas the latter looks at traces of a narrative in the absence of a character; asking what can we learn about someone through their belongings, the food they eat, what they collect or leave behind.

"When I think of picnics, I think of all the cul-de-sac block parties from my childhood. All the families who lived in the neighbourhood, coming together on a sunny day to socialize, gossip and play. Mothers putting out tupperwares of devilled eggs, cellophane wrapped platters of vanilla cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles, ham sandwiches cut into triangles, BBQ sizzling with smokies. After being slathered in sunscreen, we’d run around playing cops and robbers before working up an appetite and grabbing a paper plate full of shared food. This tactile three-dimensional painting immortalizes the feeling of warm sunshine on your skin, a sense of community and finger foods."

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