Tiffany Chin, Eyeball Flower, 2023, digital, 12x15 inches
We're excited to announce Brooklin Stormie, Emily Elise, Madeline Yee, Shinae Kim and Tiffany Chin as the recipients of the 2024 Cboe Commissioning Program Career Launcher! In winter 2023, the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers renewed our partnership Cboe Canada to bring on five new artists for the Cboe Commissioning Program. Learn more about the Cboe Commissioning Program here.
Brooklin Stormie
Brooklin Stormie is an artist and illustrator based in Peterborough Ontario, her hometown. She is a recent grad from OCAD University’s illustration program, a freelance illustrator, and a believer in dragons. Brooklin is extremely curious about the world, and seeks out opportunities for magic to happen; it is this passion that drives her work. Her current focus is on children’s media, including picture books and graphic novels. Brooklin enjoys exploring the many ways mythology has shaped our realities, and this was the subject of her recent thesis project at OCAD U.
Website: www.brooklinstormie.ca/illustration
Instagram: @brooklinstormie
Emily Elise
Emily Elise is an illustrator working out of her home studio in downtown Toronto. Her illustrations are a reflection of the organic interplay between feminism,mysticism, nature, and the occult. Emily draws inspiration from the resilience of nature, women and human beings in general, infusing their stories into her work by synthesizing familiar symbols with playful patterns and magical imagery. Incorporating elements of mysticism and spirituality, her art serves as a portal into the ethereal, inviting viewers to explore the mystical and divine.
Website: www.emilyeliseillustrator.com
Instagram: @emilyeliseillustrator
Madeline Yee
Madeline Yee is a Chinese Canadian illustrator with a background in design and science, and a passion for bringing unique stories to life through visuals. She strives to build accessible and engaging learning experiences through her art, ensuring that complex concepts are communicated in a way that is respectful and clear to a broader audience. Her practice is based in Edmonton and Toronto.
Website: madelineyee.com
Instagram: @madelillu
Shinae Kim
Shinae Kim is a Canadian painter of Korean descent. Her work moves between figuration and abstraction, an investigation and an excited celebration of the sensuality of oil paint and, indeed, of the life it depicts. She works alla prima in oil, her colours mixed one by one. Her canvases are created with several layers of oil paint in a full colour palette. The complex, intricate balance ofcolours are significant components in her work. But her real gifts reveal themselves through the articulation of her imagination, an array of rich inspirations – migration, her family history, the sensation of deracination and tragedies, the varied responses to the world and about the people who dwell in it.
Website: www.shinae.ca
Instagram: @shinaeartist
Tiffany Chin
Tiffany Chin is a Toronto-based illustrator who creates all things strange. Inspired by psychedelic posters and vintage advertisements, she strives to step beyond the boundaries of convention to create visually jarring imagery. Her work has been recognized by Communication Arts, The Society of Illustrators, and Creative Quarterly.
Website: www.twkchin.com
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