Styles & media · 10 hubs

How Vancouver artists make work

Media are treated as structured relationships, allowing collectors and researchers to move from a material or process to the artists using it.

Medium hub

Oil Painting

Vancouver and BC oil painters connected to cityscape, landscape, mountain, wildlife and abstraction. Follow artist profiles for practice and location evidence, and individual Graham Watts artwork records for official medium and dimensions; an artist's use of oil does not imply every work uses that medium.
26 connected artists

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Painting

A broad medium hub spanning oil, acrylic, abstraction, landscape, cityscape and text-based painting.
118 connected artists

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Photography

Photo-based and photoconceptual practices central to Vancouver’s international art history.
37 connected artists

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Sculpture & Installation

Material, spatial and public practices that broaden the atlas beyond two-dimensional art.
52 connected artists

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Works on Paper

Drawing, printmaking and paper-based practices across historical and contemporary artist records.
33 connected artists

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Video & Performance

Moving-image, animation, film and live practices with deep roots in Vancouver artist-run culture.
24 connected artists

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Ceramics

Clay, glaze and fired material used as sculptural and conceptual languages.
8 connected artists

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Textiles

Fabric, tapestry, dye and sewn construction across contemporary Vancouver practices.
6 connected artists

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Public & Digital Art

Civic, participatory and technology-based practices operating beyond the conventional gallery object.
12 connected artists

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Text, Books & Publishing

Language, writing, books and text-based practice across painting, public art and conceptual work.
13 connected artists