Art is a tool for exploration, collaboration, advocacy, and solidarity.
We see artistic expression as growing beyond traditional notions of what contemporary art-making can entail. It is inspired and shaped by community, and driven by social change and justice.
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These seeds are already bearing fruit (2023)
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Snap Happy (2021)
Enveloped (2021)
ARTIST TALKS + WRITINGS
Since 2021, Clare has gratefully been invited to talk and write about our work as both United Aunties and herself. Here are some of them:
• Hot Pot Talks with Love Intersections, February 3, 2021 (YouTube)
• "Women hold up half the sky," in the Makers Artists United (MAU) 2022 Calendar (Instagram)
• “Work and Hope: On art-making in the spirit of love, justice, and transformation,” St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church – Artivism Series, October 13, 2021 (online)
• “Crossing, Settling, Unsettling: Liberation, little by little,” The Ethics of Representation (SOCS 302 S031), Emily Carr University of Art and Design, March 8, 2022
• “Warm Line Through This Land: Roots and routes in the communal and the community," Britannia Art Gallery, March 14, 2022 (online)
• "Snap Happy," Neighbourhood Small Grants East Vancouver Launch Party, July 4, 2022 (online)