DAISY CHAIN

Maedeh Mosaverzadeh is an award-winning visual storyteller based in Calgary, Canada. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in the field of Drawing from the University of Calgary. Maedeh unfolds stories about life, people, and nature through illustration and animation. She is passionate about bringing awareness to environmental issues such as plastic pollution through her artistic practice. Maedeh invites viewers to reflect on environmental concerns, urging them toward positive change. She loves using vibrant and earthy colours in her work, with yellow being her favourite colour.

Matthew is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in Illustration, Painting / Murals, Design, Photography, and Sound art. Matthew is a 2020 graduate from the Alberta University of the Arts with a bachelors degree of distinction in photography. Currently working at Alberta University of the Arts in the Bookstore, and as one of the main graphic designers of the institution to advertise the various student services available to maintain mental health and wellbeing as a student on campus. Throughout his practice Matthew combines both physical mediums such as drawing, painting, collage, and print media with digital processes such as using Photoshop, graphic design, and photography. Exploring different mediums and textures is a big part of his work.

Harvey Nichol is an interdisciplinary artist from Tondo, Manila and he is currently based here in Calgary. His work embodies elements from various art movements such as neo-expressionism, folk art and street art, which he coined as street-folk-expressionism. His practice is influenced by his life experiences as an immigrant and his life living in the streets in combination this with his love of folklore and mythology. He is inspired by both pre-colonial Philippine culture and the socio-political climate of today’s world. Harvey immigrated to Canada when he was fourteen and shortly after he became disenfranchised. After years of struggle as a homeless youth, he found his passion in art and started his journey as an artist. Harvey is currently pursuing a major in Sculpture at Alberta University of the Arts where he dabbles in different mediums of expression such as storytelling, clothing design, 3-dimensional works, printsmaking, digital works, and the list continues to grow. He’s been featured in numerous articles here in Canada and back in Asia, such as Avenue Magazine, The Issue YEG, CBC Calgary, Fabefo Singapore, triART Philippines. He was also recently nominated for the Immigrant of Distinction Award 2021. His goal as an artist is to inspire young artists in Calgary and back home in Tondo, a sense of self-fulfillment that empowered him through art.