Episode - 019: Emma Ongman

Episode - 019: Emma Ongman

Emma Ongman is an interdisciplinary artist interested in questioning structures of reality. She is currently inspired by the evolution of technology and its influence on human behaviour. Her recent work explores mainstream habits of media consumption and the potential of technology beyond its intended use.  emmaongman.com [http://emmaongman.com] | @emma.jennine

Episode - 018: Aisling Doolan

Aisling Doolan feels being an interdisciplinary artist is the most interesting way to live out her human experience on Earth. She uses her cathartic artistic practise to see parts of her mind, that she otherwise may not have access to, in the tangible realm. Aisling wants to see spontaneity and raw human cognitive process in her creativity. Aisling creates and shares her art as a method of communication to connect to different parts of herself and others.

Episode - 017: Isabella Savedra

Isabella Savedra (she/her) is a fourth year English major and Studio Art minor. She is a queer artist currently based in Guelph, Ontario. Isabella is an interdisciplinary artist and writer that enjoys painting, pottery, photography, digital art, and writing poetry and prose. She explores themes of nature, racial and gender identity, mental health, and sexuality within her work.  instagram is @bella.savedra

Episode - 016: Claire Wright

Claire is a multidisciplinary artist and musician in her third year of the studio art program. Her current approach to image making is extremely meditative and gestural, relying on rapid intuitive movements of the arm/hand that often mirror the typical pacing of syntactic writing or childlike scribbling. She is particularly interested in the concept of surrealist automatism and explores themes of consciousness, the body, language, memory, catharsis, and psychedelia.

Episode - 015: Elena Levy

Elena is in her fifth year of Studio Art at the University of Guelph, completing her Studio Art degree with a double minor in Art History and Theatre Studies. Elena paints with bright colors and bold lines and is focuses on how portraiture can be used as a method of communicating one's personal trauma, healing and the pain that accompanies growing up. As a form of activism against anti-Semitism, her current work is meant to confront viewers of the violence that occurs against Jews today, though to also consider their own emotions and experiences based on the symbols and words that stand out to them.