OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce Victoria Monaco as the recipient of the 2025 Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) Residency Career Launchers and Jada-Le Daley as the runner-up for this opportunity.
RECIPIENT:
Victoria Monaco is an Italian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist with a focus on animation, illustration, new media, performance, and poetry. Her work acts as a confession of her process of becoming intimate with the human psyche, the world of dreams, and womanhood. She explores these themes in her research based art practice with focal points on the philosophical and the psychological aspects of their nature. She examines herself through this lens in an attempt to detach from her experiences to freely express them and to experiment with which mediums and materials are most compatible with those expressions. She studied Integrated Media and Experimental Animation at OCAD University.
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RUNNER-UP:
Jada-Le Daley is a multimedia animator and artist based in Ontario, Canada. Her discipline includes stop-motion animation and 2D animation. As a passionate animation fan, from mainstream to indie, she is inspired to continue to experiment with different animation techniques and the viewing experience. The main themes found in her work are identity and nostalgia while exploring work of all genres for all audiences. Currently, she is preparing her newest work, Tender head, a short film including an installation to be shown at OCAD University’s 110th GradEx.
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