Interviews with Mural Routes members about industry news and mural projects they are working on. Our members include mural artists, managers, and organizations with a passion for mural art.
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Anya Mielniczek is a Toronto based multidisciplinary artist who combines her fine art background with raw material grit in both private and public sectors creating mixed-media installations, mural work and facilitating community art activations. The artists approach to mediums includes latex, aerosol and upcycled waste, working with the mechanical application of spray and the energy …
MJ is an artist working mostly in acrylic and watercolour as a way to inspire others to see better through the power of mindfulness. She’s intrigue by the nuances between looking at a subject and seeing that same subject. Keeping in mind that we don’t see things as they are, but rather as we are, …
Evond Blake is a Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist who has worked under the pseudonym MEDIAH for 25 years. An Internationally renowned visual artist, MEDIAH is a trendsetter sparking new ideas and originality by blurring the lines between post-graffiti and dynamic abstraction. Blake’s work consists of weaving traditional street art forms with traditional painterly techniques …
Fats Patrol (Fathima) is an Indian-Canadian artist born and raised in the Middle East. Her work is a study of symbols and semiotics and our drive to make sense of the world through mythology, folklore and storytelling. A 3rd culture kid who has spent most of her life torn between religious and cultural value systems …
Nazli Nahidi, Mural Routes Program Assistant, interviewed artist Marg Cresswell in May, 2019. Marg is an award-winning muralist who spent her final year of study in Florence, Italy. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1994 and worked as a muralist for several art studios in Toronto, including for muralist Frank Stella. In …
Nazli Nahidi, Mural Routes Program Assistant, interviewed artist Dom Laporte in February, 2019. Dom Laporte is an Ottawa-based artist whose work explores the limits of portraiture through a combination of traditional painting and mixed-media methods. Laporte believes that portraiture has a unique ability to transcend the artist’s individual voice—whether he’s painting a respected personality in …
