Health, Healing and Connection
Recovery, isolation, displacement and crisis, often with health services and university research partners.
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Three lines of work
Participatory murals and community-engaged public art, in three lines of work. Each holds one project in depth and the related work around it, with the record a commissioning body needs: year, site, partner, dimensions, participants and budget.
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All projects
Every participatory mural and socially engaged art project across the three lines of work. Titles link out where the project has been published or recorded elsewhere.
| Project | Year | Place | Line of work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art in a Just Recovery: Reconnecting to UsEight neighbourhood groups, each working in a different medium, on what community care looks like after a pandemic. 70+ participants. | 2023 | Guelph, ON | Health |
| Art in Hard TimesA mural made across a city that could not gather, with eleven community organisations, during the first year of the pandemic. | 2020 | Guelph, ON | Health |
| Out of Our Minds: Building Creativity in SchoolsTen months of monthly workshops with students from four alternative school programmes. The finished work is roughly thirty feet across. | 2010 to 2011 | Nanaimo, BC | Health |
| Re-Imagining Sanctuary ServicesStaff and the people they serve picturing what the organisation should become, as part of its strategic visioning. | 2022 | London, ON | Health |
| Queer JoyFifty three 2SLGBTQIA+ students, staff and faculty from four Alberta campuses made individual artworks in one session, assembled into a single digital mural. Supported by Egale Canada and Women and Gender Equality Canada. | 2024 | Calgary, AB | Health |
| Art Dialogues: Subterranean CreativitiesAn online arts-based research series with the University of Victoria, on the creative work that happens below the surface. | 2026 | Online | Health |
| The Belonging ActionEighty people over five months, painting the stories of migration to Coast Salish land since time immemorial. Acrylic on wood panels, 24 by 32 feet, permanent on a downtown wall. Commissioned through the City of Vancouver's Celebrate Vancouver 125 Community Mural Program. | 2012 | Vancouver, BC | Memory |
| Granddaughters MuralsFive panels made with three First Nations elders and their granddaughters, and with five young artists from the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and from Vancouver's immigrant communities, at the request of the Stanley Park Ecology Society. Three of the five are displayed at the Nature House in Stanley Park. The Society's 2025 annual report describes taking “meaningful initial steps toward re-building relationships with the Artists”, and its 2026 report describes that path of reconciliation with the mural artists and with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations as continuing. | 2013 | Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC | Memory |
| Our Painted ResponsibilitiesA travelling mural carried alongside the Lummi Nation totem pole journeys from the Salish Sea toward the Alberta tar sands. Hundreds of hands. | 2014 to 2017 | Salish Sea to Alberta | Memory |
| E Ala EA painted mural carried across the country with the Red Road to DC totem pole journey in 2021, added to by hundreds of contributors along the route. Now exhibited at East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue, Washington. | 2021 | Across the United States | Memory |
| Ursuline Heritage AliveThe Ursuline Sisters' stories gathered one by one, then translated into images by students, staff and alumni. Each piece was hand painted separately, then composed digitally into four panels spanning the order's founding to its future. Unveiled in June 2023 to around five hundred guests. | 2023 | Chatham, ON | Memory |
| Brescia Centennial PortraitureA 16 by 24 foot portrait of a women's university's first hundred years, made between 2018 and 2020 with students, faculty, staff, alumni and faith leaders, at four levels of involvement: project members, story writers, painters and viewers. | 2018 to 2020 | London, ON | Memory |
| Syrian Youth Voices: We Still Have HopeYoung people newly arrived in Canada picturing hope on their own terms, with the Muslim Resource Centre. | 2019 to 2020 | London, ON | Memory |
| Connected in ChaosThirteen themes and roughly a hundred and fifty artworks in thirteen media, made by over a hundred people meeting online through lockdown, with others repairing and painting the wall itself. Chosen by public ballot, and still installed in the Richmond Street underpass. | 2020 | London, ON | Systems and sectors |
| Fostering Dialogues: Action ResearchLGBTQ+ older adults and homecare support workers picturing community care together, in a virtual arts and dialogue programme. | 2023 | Canada | Systems and sectors |
| We Are All OneResidents and staff of Participation House co-authoring a single image. | 2019 | London, ON | Systems and sectors |
| Strategic Action Plan: One BodyA leadership organisation's direction worked out in paint rather than in a document, with Horizon Leadership and Mission Services. | 2017 | London, ON | Systems and sectors |
The finished work
Completed murals and paintings
