RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • The aesthetics of atmospheres

  • Aesthetic concepts: absence and emptiness

  • 草書 and non-semantic elements of the text: the ‘outside’ , silence and emptiness


SEMINARS (invited as a speaker)

conferences: BCATA, Capilano University, ECEBC, Heart of the Matter, Preschool Promenade, Wonder of Learning Exhibit (Reggio Emilia Tour)

child care resource and referral centres: Westcoast Family Centres, Options Community Services, YMCA, Archway Community Services, Prince George CCRR, Sea to Sky, MRPM CCRR

school districts and child care centers: Burnaby School District, West Point Grey Academy, UBC Child Care, YMCA, YWCA, Lower Mainland child care centres, Japanese Hall

post secondary institutions: UBC Department of Education, Capilano University, Vancouver Community College, MTI Community College, BCIT


ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

In waiting: For the writer her gestures. (Forthcoming - April 2027). Yellowhouse Art Centre, Galiano Island.

Poetic and aesthetic dimension of form and emptiness. (March 2026). Yellowhouse Art Centre, Galiano Island

Utroba: Internal landscape and the bodily memory. (2025). Yellowhouse Art Centre, Galiano Island

Felting. (2012, ongoing). West Point Grey Academy, Vancouver SD

Encounters with places: Dwellings. (2015). Windsor Elementary, Burnaby (funded by ArtStarts grant)

Negotiating bodies and materials. (2014-2015). Brentwood Elementary, Burnaby (funded by ArtStarts grant)


EXHIBITIONS

The aesthetics of trace. (March 2026). solo show. Yellowhouse Art Centre, Galiano Island

Utroba: Internal landscape and the bodily memory. (2025). solo show. Yellowhouse Art Centre, Galiano Island

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Performative geometry : Grids and geometric abstraction. (2021). solo show. CSA space, Vancouver

Walls are not walls. (2019). solo show. Massy gallery, Vancouver

Encounters with places: Dwellings. (2014-2015). group show. ArtStarts gallery, Vancouver

 

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