Professional Practices

Student Bio Examples

• Amelia

  Amelia Thorpe is an artist working in textiles, installation and painting based on the Sunshine Coast, BC. She is currently completing a BA in Art + Design at Trinity Western University. Her practice draws on familial history, feminist discourse around craft practices, and Romani culture. After completing her degree she hopes to become an Art Therapist and explore other ways art can be transformative in the body, mind and spirit. Past exhibitions include 2022 in Review, The Movement of Being 2022, 2021 in Review, and Identities: A collection of Portraits 2021.

• Zaeya

  Based in Sto:lo territory British Columbia, Zaeya Winter is completing a BA Honours degree at Trinity Western University, specializing in printmaking and multi-media work. Interested in the intersection of art and ecology, she hopes to create work that advocates for the land and the more-than-human: to rekindle connection and move towards recuperation. Zaeya hopes to become a part of interdisciplinary collaborations for climate justice: forming speculative story-based works and bioremedial land artworks. Currently working towards a group show, Untitled, Zaeya is focusing on how to collaborate with critters as companions and models for new ways of living and becoming-with.

  Exhibitions include: 

  The Movement of Being, 2022.

  I am Still Here, 2022.

  In Review, 2022.

  Lines and Limits, 2023.

• Lucia

  Lucia Li is a Vancouver-based designer who specializes in packaging design and creating unique customer experiences. With an interest in enhancing businesses, Lucia explores ways of developing user interfaces in apps and websites to benefit customers in some of her work. Her studies of illustration and graphic design at ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles have been a foundation for her continued practice at Trinity Western University. Living in two cities with diverse cultures has given Lucia a range of artistic influences. She has visited many art exhibitions that inspire her art-making process including shows like Lines and Limits (2023). Additionally, marketing materials for a Langley winery over the past three years has allowed Lucia to practice making items with an understanding of the client’s perspective.

• Mei

  Meihui Li was born in China, she has always been fascinated by textiles. She also loves textiles or handmade arts and crafts. When she was 20 years old she gave up her university program in China because she wanted to pursue what she loved. When she was 23 she moved to Vancouver and Trinity Western was the beginning of her dream. During her four years of study at Trinity Western, she learned about a field that she had not touched before, which is abstract art. She believes that abstract art embodies more spiritual feelings, so she is currently combining textiles and abstract art. She wants to express her different emotions in this way.