STUDIO COLLECTIVE

LYDIA POURMAND
she/they
Multidisciplinary Artist
Lydia is a QTBIPOC Persian multidisciplinary artist, exploring the abstract through 3D, motion design and painting.

SUSIE LEE
she/her
Ceramicist
Susie is a part time ceramist artist living in MST. She creates wheel thrown and hand built functional ceramics inspired by the small joys in her daily life. She loves how ceramics allows her to play between the lines of technical and artistic creativity.

CADEN LANE
he/him
Interdisciplinary Artist
A Cree undergrad attending UBC, Caden revitalizes the resilience of Renaissance Humanism through the use of indigenous cultural teachings, cross referenced to Western and Near-Eastern philosophies, religions, and spiritual practices, drawing out beauty of occult aesthetic. Follow his work as language evolves by motif between every graphic, outlining phenomena that has led to unify mind, in accordance to frontier scientific and philosophical development hidden as the surreal.
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YVETTE TANG
she/her
Interdisciplinary Artist
I studied print making at Emily Carr, drawing will be my go to for beginning of any ideas, I picked up photography a few years before covid and it's been wonderful to realized ideas in a surrealistic way and also meet amazing artists, working as a team. Studied fashion photography at New York Film Academy and workshopped with Formento x Formento in Paris. Artist residency in Rhone Valley , France. Now I am beginning to work on pottery. If I am to describe myself as an artist , I am a surrealist, there's often a narrative with the work, to deliver and emote a certain contradicting situation or emotions, to create a pleasurable cringe of some sort. Often strong emotions. I am often investigative with the very truth of human or nature behaviors, I do believe the roots of all things are deeply emotional and it fascinates me. An uncontrollable controlled situation, like the world.

Sev Shabankareh
she/her
Interdisciplinary Artist
Sevin Shabankareh is a multi-disciplinary cog in several machines. Sevin is currently devoted to leatherwork, photo work, ink, and poetry.
JILLIAN JUSTINE BROOKS
she/her
Illustrator
Jillian is originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta. She's been residing in Vancouver for the last 12 years, creating work from Illustrations to Paintings that reflect her creative sense of humor. Her project Métis Bannock Queen raises funds for nonprofits in Vancouver.

BRENDAN HARTE
they/them
Interdisciplinary Artist
Brendan is a Nonbinary Neurodivergent Queer living and working in the unceded Squamish, Musqueum, and Tsleil-Waututh Territories. Tech worker by day, I look to reconnect with my inner child through this studio by working with my hands to create pieces inspired by living with Anxiety, ADHD, and ASD in a neurotypical world.

NEIL MANCHON
he/him
Spatial Designer
Neil Manchon is a spatial designer that plays with time and space to conjure dynamic structures and artworks. He is inspired by the natural and scientific wonders of the world that his parents showed him from an early age.

Avery O'brien
she/her
Musician/Ceramicist
Avery is a musician (AVEY and Harlequin Gold) as well as a part time ceramist based in Vancouver. Her work incorporates vibrant colours and playful designs that are intended to brighten up your day.

MIA RILEY
she/her
Ceramicist
Mia Riley is an emerging artist, writer and curator. Sometimes she makes pots and sculptures in clay and like many people right now, is in the process of figuring out who they are and how they fit into the world. Besides making pottery she is interested in intersections between identity, culture, history, and her experience as a mixed-race Asian- Canadian.

LIANNE ZANNIER
she/her
Experimental Animator
An experimental animator primarily working with hand-drawn animation. Her animations often explore how movement is felt and perceived through manipulating the rules and frameworks of both animation and cinema.

RAVEN JOHN
they/she/he
Interdisciplinary Artist
Raven John/Trickster, artist, involuntary comedian and two-spirit activist, is of Coast Salish and Stolo Nation descent. Trickster is a visual artist, cultural consultant, mediator, storyteller, photographer and sculptor. A jack-of-all-trades (and master of a few), their practice covers a wide array of mediums from provocation and humor, puppet making, ceramics, dressmaking, interactive electronics and indigenous technologies.

NISHA PLATZER
she/her
Experimental Filmmaker
Drawn to vibrant shades, moon sparkles, and the melding of sounds and imagery that you can dream and drown in, Nisha likes to play with film and photography through handmade processes. Nisha Platzer was a previous resident of the JBG in 2015-16.

PARNEYAN
she/her
Ceramicist
Parneyan is a first generation Canadian passionate about empowering marginalized people. She is a proud volunteer for the support network for Indigenous Women and Women of Color and also volunteers for initiatives through her corporate job to improve diversity and inclusion. She only recently started her journey with pottery and is excited to work towards advancing her skills with the goal that one day she will be able to encourage others of any status or limitations, to express themselves and heal using art therapy.

JAE WOO KANG
they/he/she
Filmmaker / Animator
Jaewoo Kang is a filmmaker, animator and visual artist based on unceded Tsleil-Waututh lands, also known as North Vancouver. He explores the film medium as a way of creating new queer aesthetic that blurs the line between gender binary.

MICKEY VESCERA
they/them
Ceramicist
Mickey Vescera is a ceramicist, sculptor, and writer born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Their main practice is ceramic functional ware and abstract sculptures inspired by science fiction, industrial waste, and the wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.

KALI FISH
they/them
Interdisciplinary Artist
Kali Fish is a multi-medium chameleon from Uranus. They make wearable and visual art with textiles, paint, found objects, beads, teeth, stones and bones. Their current focus is creating tiny worlds, dolls, replicas, and creatures both real and from dreams.

MARY KIM
she/her
Ceramicist
Mary Kim is an artist living and working in Vancouver. Mary creates small functional ceramic wares, art cards, and mini paintings. Her images are inspired by the humour and brightness found in pop culture, cartoons, monsters and animals.

JULIA ANNA CZUBERNAT
she/her
Ceramicist
Julia has previously been a JBG studiomate and rejoins the space with a fresh perspective after wanderlust..

JESSICA SNOOK
she/her
Painter
Painter and curator of bones. Exploring nature, life, death and decay through found objects and imaginary creatures.