Portrait of Bob Marley in front of a Rasta flag on a door of the South side of the Pickapeppa Caribbean Soul Food restaurant. Under the portrait it has the Bob Marley quote "Don't gain the world only to lose your soul".

Don’t gain the world only to lose your soul

Artist: Colin Alexander

2074 2nd Ave, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1B1

Portrait of Bob Marley in front of a Rasta flag on a door of the South side of the Pickapeppa Caribbean Soul Food restaurant.
Under the portrait it has the Bob Marley quote “Don’t gain the world only to lose your soul”

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A woman stands in an autumn forest wearing a garment with lions on it. At her feet is one male and one female lion. She holds a golden scepter and a book, with a floating golden earth above it.

Efemena

Artist: Efemena Ogboru

685 Westminster Ave Winnipeg MB R3C 0Z4

One of three murals located on the Sherbrook Inn.

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Two mural paintings on a white wall, on the left a boy in a white button-up shirt yells and holds a newspaper in the city streets. A man in a green jacket faces him and reaches his hand towards the boy. On the right, two Ukrainian dancers in red dresses dance with eachother. Two other male dancers jump around them with their legs in the air.

842 Main Street Mural

Artist: Dennis Bell, Diane Bell

842 Main St Winnipeg MB R2W 3N8

The dancers were in honour of Diane’s mother who has now passed away. She was down there checking on us everyday; and she had made the costumes for this dancers. She was also a strong part of the dance company and helped get it started. She also went to a shoemaker and had all the boots made by hand. The material for the costumes was brought from the Ukraine, as were the hats.

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A colourful, cartoonish mural of wacky Ren and Stimpy-type characters on the side of a building.

Untitled

Artist: Toilet Snake

2337 Main St, Vancouver, British Columbia V5T 3C9, Canada

Portland-based artist Toilet Snake painted this skateboarding and pop art-inspired mural for the inaugural Vancouver Mural Festival in 2016, drawing on the rebellious attitude of the adjacent Anti-Social Skateboard Shop to capture the bubbly yet chaotic aesthetic style of 80’s and 90’s skateboard culture.

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matriarch indigenous mural

The Matriarch

Artist: Siobhan Joseph

2301 Main St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5T1M6

Artist Siobhan Joseph from the Squamish Nation was inspired by her late mother, the matriarch of her family, who was outspoken, who protested, and loved children. Joseph had a vision of a woman standing in a welcoming pose, with a man and elder woman on either side representing the men and elders of her community supporting her. The matriarch is depicted wearing red to honour the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and situated in the natural landscape of the land, mountains and sea, to represent connectedness.

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graffiti wall murals motel vancouver

Between Two Islands

Artist: Fiona Ackerman, Joon Lee, KC Hall

2111 Main St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5T 3C6

A partnership between the Vancouver Mural Festival, Nicola Wealth Real Estate, and The Narrow Group to transform an iconic Vancouver motel into a temporary art space, landmark, and community event venue before the site is redeveloped. Three artists with different styles collaborated to transform the motel into a single mural stretching across the exterior of the building which now houses artist studios.

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