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Category: 2023/24

Tara Bursey

Portrait of Tara Bursey with dark hair and glasses wearing a denim jacket, standing beside a stone wall with a heritage plaque

Artist Biography: Tara Bursey is an interdisciplinary artist, self-publisher and arts worker. She has worked as Curatorial Assistant at the Textile Museum of Canada and Artscape Youngplace, and in a curatorial capacity for Hamilton Supercrawl, Craft Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Art Gallery of Burlington, and the Wychwood Barns Community Association. Her artwork has […]

Rebecca Casalino

Rebecca Casalino, with short curly hair, glasses, and over-ear headphones, sits at a desk with a microphone, computer, and lamp, smiling and waving at the camera in the Media Arts Studio.

Artist Biography: Rebecca Casalino is an artist, writer and curator based in Hamilton, Ontario. She is a queer Italian-Canadian settler, maintaining her practices through deeply personal collaborations in her community and sheer willpower. Using feminist, crip and queer sensibilities, Casalino’s work is semi-autobiographical, employing nostalgia and humour to describe the circumstances around her. Her writing […]

Brenda Mabel Reid

A Centre[3] resident artist in a blue jacket and grey cap uses a camera on a tripod to capture a photo in a snowy, open field beneath cloudy skies.

Artist Biography: Brenda Mabel Reid (they/she) is an emerging artist and designer based in Kitchener. Their practice includes textiles, sculpture, printmaking and installation. They currently work out of their studio at the KW Artist’s Co-op where Brenda’s practice explores ideas around care politics, community and architecture. They regularly engage textiles as a medium to explore […]

Ness Lee

Composite artwork of a photographic portrait of Ness Lee surrounded by illustrated figures, set against a surreal, colourful landscape background

Artist Biography: Ness Lee draws upon personal history and narratives of their diasporic cultural upbringing and identity to their body, language and sexuality. With these embodied experiences, Lee creates tender and surreal illustrations, paintings, sculptures and installations as a language of self-discovery and acceptance. Exploring various states of mind during intimate stages of vulnerability, Lee’s […]

Jill Letten

Textile artwork with layered orange, green, and cream fabrics framing a painted face looking forward

Artist Biography: Jill Letten is an artist from Hamilton, Ontario, accredited with a BFA from McMaster University’s Studio Arts program. She is a contemporary realist painter creating acrylic paintings that visualize realistic, and sometimes surrealistic, environments. The word ‘anemoia’ has become a term of interest, defined as “a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you […]