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ARTS & HUMANITIES STUDENTS' COUNCIL
Featured Artists
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Elina Zhou
Title: "Unseen"
Website: https://ezhou.myportfolio.com/work
"Elina Zhou is a Chinese Canadian multi-media artist whose practice primarily revolves around experimental processes, overlapping printmaking, photography, and other mediums. Her works inspire conversations around the intersecting identities of being both Chinese and Canadian, while also growing up in an immigrant family. In her creations, she utilizes motifs familiar to Chinese Canadians and investigate their interactions with traditional Chinese culture. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Western University and is curating her first exhibition at the Cohen Commons in London, Ontario.
Through the intersection print and other mediums, she speaks to the feelings experienced by second generation immigrant children. As Chinese Canadians, we often feel disconnected from their Chinese roots, while simultaneously experiencing discrimination in the Western world. The tension between her contrasting identities and the lack of space in the art world for Chinese Canadians, inspires the subjects of her multimedia pieces. Common themes reflected in her work include nostalgia, activism, and contrasting traditional Chinese values with modern values.
As an artist Zhou is always looking to push the limits of each medium and explore new techniques or combine mediums to create visual interest. This process primarily focuses on printmaking, as printmaking is such a broad medium that offers varying processes and outcomes. Currently, she is completing a project that pushes the size of screen printing and linocut."
Website: https://ezhou.myportfolio.com/work
"Elina Zhou is a Chinese Canadian multi-media artist whose practice primarily revolves around experimental processes, overlapping printmaking, photography, and other mediums. Her works inspire conversations around the intersecting identities of being both Chinese and Canadian, while also growing up in an immigrant family. In her creations, she utilizes motifs familiar to Chinese Canadians and investigate their interactions with traditional Chinese culture. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Western University and is curating her first exhibition at the Cohen Commons in London, Ontario.
Through the intersection print and other mediums, she speaks to the feelings experienced by second generation immigrant children. As Chinese Canadians, we often feel disconnected from their Chinese roots, while simultaneously experiencing discrimination in the Western world. The tension between her contrasting identities and the lack of space in the art world for Chinese Canadians, inspires the subjects of her multimedia pieces. Common themes reflected in her work include nostalgia, activism, and contrasting traditional Chinese values with modern values.
As an artist Zhou is always looking to push the limits of each medium and explore new techniques or combine mediums to create visual interest. This process primarily focuses on printmaking, as printmaking is such a broad medium that offers varying processes and outcomes. Currently, she is completing a project that pushes the size of screen printing and linocut."
Claire Meerkamper
Title: "The Need to Capture: A Self-Aware Analysis of the Self"
"After a very brief interaction with me, it would come as a surprise to absolutely no one that I'm a former theatre kid (and current theatre adult). I've always had a passion for creating, but am especially drawn to the medium of video, where my usual theatrics can be heightened through music, lighting, editing, and general movie magic. In middle and high school, whenever there was an option to create a video instead of an essay, you better believe I would be in costume ASAP, and I'm so grateful that the Faculty of A&H has let me bring that passion with me to university.
With this project in particular, I really tried to lean into a meta, self-referential tone, finally reflecting on this love of video creation (all, of course, while creating a video to do so)."
"After a very brief interaction with me, it would come as a surprise to absolutely no one that I'm a former theatre kid (and current theatre adult). I've always had a passion for creating, but am especially drawn to the medium of video, where my usual theatrics can be heightened through music, lighting, editing, and general movie magic. In middle and high school, whenever there was an option to create a video instead of an essay, you better believe I would be in costume ASAP, and I'm so grateful that the Faculty of A&H has let me bring that passion with me to university.
With this project in particular, I really tried to lean into a meta, self-referential tone, finally reflecting on this love of video creation (all, of course, while creating a video to do so)."
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