Resident Artists
Tyler Burey is a multidisciplinary queer Indigenous artist originally from Northern Ontario. A graduate of OCAD University,Tyler uses his art to navigate the complexity of queer life and the layered experience of finding belonging within a newly discovered community. Through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and photography, he seeks to create meaningful representation — for himself, and for the broader queer Indigenous community he continues to grow into. Working with materials such as acrylic, beadwork, paint, and light, Tyler’s work merges vulnerability and resilience, often blurring the line between celebration and survival.
Vishwa Patel holds a BFA (Honours) from OCAD University and a minor in Sustainability. Her practice blends miniature painting, embroidery, and textile design with contemporary materials to explore diasporic memory, cultural continuity, and emerging ecological concerns. She is drawn to creating work that blurs the line between fine art and craft. During the residency, she plans to merge South Asian embroidery techniques with large-scale painting in the traditional South Asian miniature style to explore ecological narratives rooted in Toronto’s ravine system and its layered urban history, using Gladstone House as a central site for research and inspiration.
Emaan Shaikh is a Pakistani artist based in Toronto whose work explores remembered spaces, shifting terrains, and overlooked details of transient environments. Her practice draws from the natural world and her conservation work in heritage sites, exploring how history, memory, and reinvention intertwine. Emaan’s residency will focus on researching, preserving, and reinterpreting found imagery through detailed drawings and paintings. Using photographs, field notes, and historical patterns, she will trace, map, and repeat motifs on paper, applying a conservation-inspired process called reintegration to revive fragmented images.
