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A visual artist who grew up in Vancouver’s Chinatown, Gwen Boyle’s work explores movement, history, and place. The granddaughter of a Pender Street jeweller, Gwen draws inspiration from the sights and sounds of her childhood — the clinking of beads on an abacus, the hammering of jade, the melting of gold. Gwen is in conversation with host Am Johal about experiences from her Chinatown upbringing. She shares what led her to pursue a lifelong career in art, and her fascination with the Arctic. She also speaks to some of her particular works, including the public art installation, “Abacus (Suan Phan),” an interactive sculpture symbolic of “merchants and old social fabric of Shanghai Alley and Chinatown.”
Author: Gwen Boyle, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-10-29
Accompanying this report is a Photobook that resulted from this research project. This photobook is especially for the residents who participated. Participants showed how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their sense of social context, including their local neighbourhood environment. This book is a showcase of the places and situations that were identified as facilitating or inhibiting social connections in people's home environments at this time, their explanations of the way they understand and relate to these places, and what they think it would take to generate a greater sense of sociability. It accompanies a longer analytical report of the same titlle.
Author: Martin, Lainey, Author: Holden, Meg, Author: Hey Neighbour Collective
Date created: 2021-12-01