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Ambivalently Yours is a semi-anonymous, perpetually ambivalent, visual artist, animator and writer. Her practice, which includes drawing, animation, installation and fiction, aims to highlight the potential for Feminist resistance that exists within conflicting emotions. Her creative sensibility exists at the intersection of cute and creepy, with a deep devotion to big feelings and pink hues.

Ambivalently Yours holds a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University and an MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, shared virally on the Internet and featured extensively in online news media. Her diligent online engagement as Ambivalently Yours has resulted in a large social media following and her interactions with her online community directly influence her work.

Artists

White person standing against a pink backdrop. They are facing away from the camera. They have a pink barette in their long brunette hair.

Ambivalently Yours. Photo: courtesy of artist.

Victoria Cheong is a Toronto-based artist working in music, video and performance. She produces and performs electronic music as New Chance. Her work in music also includes DJing, remixing, and a long time collaborative practice in contemporary dance. Recent projects include composing for Aisha Sasha John’s Diana Ross Dream, producing with Picastro’s Liz Hysen and musical collaboration with reggae legend Willi Williams. In 2023 New Chance released an art edition mantra record, Peaceful Mind (Personal Records). Her most recent release is the full-length concept record, A Rock Unsteady (We Are Time).

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Victoria Cheong, Photo: Claire Harvie

Erika DeFreitas’s interdisciplinary practice includes performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, drawing and writing. Placing emphasis on gesture, process, the body, documentation and paranormal phenomena, DeFreitas mines concepts of loss, post-memory, legacy and objecthood. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg; Gallery TPW, Toronto; Project Row Houses and the Museum of African American Culture, Houston; Fort Worth Contemporary Arts; and Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita. DeFreitas holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.

Young Black woman with curly long hair. She's standing at the waterfront and smiling.

Erika DeFreitas, Photo: Justin Aranha, 2024

Sara Keller is a mixed media installation artist based out of Picton, Ontario and is Owner of The Keller Creative. She designs and fabricates custom art installations for public and private spaces and events. She specializes in the experimental manipulation of diverse and common materials. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and a Minor in Art History from the University of Missouri, Sara embodies a passion for artistic expression and innovation. Her current body of work explores our connection to the natural world through cyanotype, a camera-less photography method creating unreproducible prints.

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Sarah Keller. Photo: Courtesy of artist.

Stacey Sproule is a Picton-based multi-disciplinary artist working in hand-drawn animation. Using and subverting animation techniques and processes she explores the liminal, the ephemeral, and the magical. She holds a BFA from OCAD in Drawing and Painting. Her work has been supported by the OAC, she has received a full fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and has exhibited at Forest City Gallery, FADO, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, and others. Her work has been featured in festivals including 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival, Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation, the Rhubarb Festival, Mirror Mountain Film Festival, and the West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival.