2025
Jenny Lee Craig (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, a cultural producer and a certified expressive art therapist. Her projects draw from craft, surrealism, material exploration, often weaving in narrative and storytelling. Her work is often community engaged and collaborative. Her past projects include co-directing the mobile art space Tin Can Studio, writing and directing a play in a swimming pool, and participating in three Hammock residencies during Hammock’s inaugural phase, spanning from 2009 to 2016. In addition to creating visual art and playwriting, she swims and competes with her artistic swimming team, and sings with the Kingsgate Chorus.
Jenny is currently the administrative assistant for the Hammock Residency.
Heidi Nagtegaal (they/them) is a non binary pansexual person and interdisciplinary artist living with various neurodivergences and mental illnesses. They are Hard of Hearing (50% hearing) and were blind in one eye until they got an eye surgery in 2018. They are a first generation Dutch immigrant, and live in so-called Vancouver BC.
They founded Hammock Residency in a soft launch way in 2016, and hard launched it to the world in 2018, running it as a solo project until 2020, when the collective was formed. They also do other arts administration, and advocacy for folks with disabilities, with other organizations. In their arts practice, they have focussed on third spaces, the spirit of DIY/DIT, textile arts, performance and intervention, using photography and videography as a form of documentation.
They are currently working on a series of videos on mental health, using the past 20 years of textile arts as a kind of container for these delicate conversations. They have exhibited internationally, from small backyard gatherings, artist run centres, museums, and the TATE Modern.
Jijii Buck (they/he) is a plainspoken interdisciplinary artist whose work moves between high art and the knowledge carried through everyday people (their people), using radical truth-telling as a tool for collective liberation. Originally from Mohkinstsis / Treaty 7 Territory and now based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal, Jijii draws from their intersectional lived experience to create sculpture, performance, poetic essays, community-engaged projects, and other visual and auditory forms that make the catastrophic digestible. Their practice has intersected with organizations across Canada—including M:ST Performative Art, Generator, Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre, Femme Wave, and Hammock Residency—and is grounded in advocacy work spanning harm reduction, decriminalization, and abolition. Whether collaborating through artist-run centres or grassroots initiatives, Jijii’s work invites people to confront power, uplift marginalized communities, and imagine freer futures.
2024
sophia bartholomew is a trans non-binary person and interdisciplinary artist living with mental illness and the long-term effects of a traumatic brain injury.
They are descended from Norwegian immigrants on Treaty 3 territory (rural Northwestern Ontario) and English and Irish settlers in and around so-called Toronto. Working outwards from the ruins and runes of their own cultural inheritance, their practice spans drawing, writing, sculpture- and installation-making, video, collaboration, and small, daily negotiations with found materials and household waste. Their projects engage slow processes of transference and transformation, upholding queer practices of fluidity, adaptability, tenderness, hope, and love. sophia has presented their work at C4RD in London, nGbK in Berlin, avecez art space in Havana, and at galleries and artist-run centres across Canada. They received their BFA from UBC in 2012 and their MFA from the University of Guelph in 2022.
Jenny Lee Craig (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, a cultural producer and a certified expressive art therapist. Her projects draw from craft, surrealism, material exploration, often weaving in narrative and storytelling. Her work is often community engaged and collaborative. Her past projects include co-directing the mobile art space Tin Can Studio, writing and directing a play in a swimming pool, and participating in three Hammock residencies during Hammock’s inaugural phase, spanning from 2009 to 2016. In addition to creating visual art and playwriting, she swims and competes with her artistic swimming team, and sings with the Kingsgate Chorus.
Jenny is currently the administrative assistant for the Hammock Residency.
Heidi Nagtegaal (they/them) is a non binary pansexual person and interdisciplinary artist living with various neurodivergences and mental illnesses. They are Hard of Hearing (50% hearing) and were blind in one eye until they got an eye surgery in 2018. They are a first generation Dutch immigrant, and live in so-called Vancouver BC.
They founded Hammock Residency in a soft launch way in 2016, and hard launched it to the world in 2018, running it as a solo project until 2020, when the collective was formed. They also do other arts administration, and advocacy for folks with disabilities, with other organizations. In their arts practice, they have focussed on third spaces, the spirit of DIY/DIT, textile arts, performance and intervention, using photography and videography as a form of documentation.
They are currently working on a series of videos on mental health, using the past 20 years of textile arts as a kind of container for these delicate conversations. They have exhibited internationally, from small backyard gatherings, artist run centres, museums, and the TATE Modern.
2023
sophia bartholomew is a trans non-binary person and interdisciplinary artist living with mental illness and the long-term effects of a traumatic brain injury.
They are descended from Norwegian immigrants on Treaty 3 territory (rural Northwestern Ontario) and English and Irish settlers in and around so-called Toronto. Working outwards from the ruins and runes of their own cultural inheritance, their practice spans drawing, writing, sculpture- and installation-making, video, collaboration, and small, daily negotiations with found materials and household waste. Their projects engage slow processes of transference and transformation, upholding queer practices of fluidity, adaptability, tenderness, hope, and love. sophia has presented their work at C4RD in London, nGbK in Berlin, avecez art space in Havana, and at galleries and artist-run centres across Canada. They received their BFA from UBC in 2012 and their MFA from the University of Guelph in 2022.
Jenny Lee Craig (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, a cultural producer and a certified expressive art therapist. Her projects draw from craft, surrealism, material exploration, often weaving in narrative and storytelling. Her work is often community engaged and collaborative. Her past projects include co-directing the mobile art space Tin Can Studio, writing and directing a play in a swimming pool, and participating in three Hammock residencies during Hammock’s inaugural phase, spanning from 2009 to 2016. In addition to creating visual art and playwriting, she swims and competes with her artistic swimming team, and sings with the Kingsgate Chorus.
Jenny is currently the administrative assistant for the Hammock Residency.
Heidi Nagtegaal (they/them) is a non binary pansexual person and interdisciplinary artist living with various neurodivergences and mental illnesses. They are Hard of Hearing (50% hearing) and were blind in one eye until they got an eye surgery in 2018. They are a first generation Dutch immigrant, and live in so-called Vancouver BC.
They founded Hammock Residency in a soft launch way in 2016, and hard launched it to the world in 2018, running it as a solo project until 2020, when the collective was formed. They also do other arts administration, and advocacy for folks with disabilities, with other organizations. In their arts practice, they have focussed on third spaces, the spirit of DIY/DIT, textile arts, performance and intervention, using photography and videography as a form of documentation.
They are currently working on a series of videos on mental health, using the past 20 years of textile arts as a kind of container for these delicate conversations. They have exhibited internationally, from small backyard gatherings, artist run centres, museums, and the TATE Modern.
Estraven Lupino-Smith is a queer and trans non-binary artist, born in Dish with One Spoon Territory to an Italian and Scottish family. They work as an artist, researcher, and writer whose work is informed by their curiosity and critical engagements with human interactions in varied environments: natural, cultural, and constructed. Their interdisciplinary practice involves sound, sculpture, video, and other various forms of installation in partnership with their research and writing. They are specifically interested in investigating ecologies, conceptions of the wild, race and whiteness, gender, social and cultural normativities, ancestral stories and skills, and movements for justice and self-determination.
2022
sophia bartholomew is a trans non-binary person and interdisciplinary artist living with mental illness and the long-term effects of a traumatic brain injury.
They are descended from Norwegian immigrants on Treaty 3 territory (rural Northwestern Ontario) and English and Irish settlers in and around so-called Toronto. Working outwards from the ruins and runes of their own cultural inheritance, their practice spans drawing, writing, sculpture- and installation-making, video, collaboration, and small, daily negotiations with found materials and household waste. Their projects engage slow processes of transference and transformation, upholding queer practices of fluidity, adaptability, tenderness, hope, and love. sophia has presented their work at C4RD in London, nGbK in Berlin, avecez art space in Havana, and at galleries and artist-run centres across Canada. They received their BFA from UBC in 2012 and their MFA from the University of Guelph in 2022.
Jenny Lee Craig (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, a cultural producer and a certified expressive art therapist. Her projects draw from craft, surrealism, material exploration, often weaving in narrative and storytelling. Her work is often community engaged and collaborative. Her past projects include co-directing the mobile art space Tin Can Studio, writing and directing a play in a swimming pool, and participating in three Hammock residencies during Hammock’s inaugural phase, spanning from 2009 to 2016. In addition to creating visual art and playwriting, she swims and competes with her artistic swimming team, and sings with the Kingsgate Chorus.
Jenny is currently the administrative assistant for the Hammock Residency.
Heidi Nagtegaal (they/them) is a non binary pansexual person and interdisciplinary artist living with various neurodivergences and mental illnesses. They are Hard of Hearing (50% hearing) and were blind in one eye until they got an eye surgery in 2018. They are a first generation Dutch immigrant, and live in so-called Vancouver BC.
They founded Hammock Residency in a soft launch way in 2016, and hard launched it to the world in 2018, running it as a solo project until 2020, when the collective was formed. They also do other arts administration, and advocacy for folks with disabilities, with other organizations. In their arts practice, they have focussed on third spaces, the spirit of DIY/DIT, textile arts, performance and intervention, using photography and videography as a form of documentation.
They are currently working on a series of videos on mental health, using the past 20 years of textile arts as a kind of container for these delicate conversations. They have exhibited internationally, from small backyard gatherings, artist run centres, museums, and the TATE Modern.
2021
sophia bartholomew is a trans non-binary person and interdisciplinary artist living with mental illness and the long-term effects of a traumatic brain injury.
They are descended from Norwegian immigrants on Treaty 3 territory (rural Northwestern Ontario) and English and Irish settlers in and around so-called Toronto. Working outwards from the ruins and runes of their own cultural inheritance, their practice spans drawing, writing, sculpture- and installation-making, video, collaboration, and small, daily negotiations with found materials and household waste. Their projects engage slow processes of transference and transformation, upholding queer practices of fluidity, adaptability, tenderness, hope, and love. sophia has presented their work at C4RD in London, nGbK in Berlin, avecez art space in Havana, and at galleries and artist-run centres across Canada. They received their BFA from UBC in 2012 and their MFA from the University of Guelph in 2022.
Heidi Nagtegaal (they/them) is a non binary pansexual person and interdisciplinary artist living with various neurodivergences and mental illnesses. They are Hard of Hearing (50% hearing) and were blind in one eye until they got an eye surgery in 2018. They are a first generation Dutch immigrant, and live in so-called Vancouver BC.
They founded Hammock Residency in a soft launch way in 2016, and hard launched it to the world in 2018, running it as a solo project until 2020, when the collective was formed. They also do other arts administration, and advocacy for folks with disabilities, with other organizations. In their arts practice, they have focussed on third spaces, the spirit of DIY/DIT, textile arts, performance and intervention, using photography and videography as a form of documentation.
They are currently working on a series of videos on mental health, using the past 20 years of textile arts as a kind of container for these delicate conversations. They have exhibited internationally, from small backyard gatherings, artist run centres, museums, and the TATE Modern.
Carmen Papalia (born 1981) is a blind artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. His practice focuses on “creative wayfinding”, the use of alternative modes of navigation without visual cues. Papalia is known for his performances. This includes a performance in Santa Ana, California where Papalia was guided only by a marching band playing predetermined audio cues for physical obstacles and navigation.
Papalia also conducts non-visual walking tours for sighted people. In 2015, Papalia proposed an anti-policy approach to accessibility “rethinking of the terms on which all of us care for and coexist with one another” in his Open Access conceptual framework.