Metal sculptor, painter and teacher, Geordie Lishman was born in 1975 in Port Perry, Ontario. Geordie was raised by father, sculptor Bill Lishman, founder of Operation Migration, and mother Paula Lishman of Paula Lishman Ltd., International Sustainable Fur Fashion Company. The influences of Operation Migration and the intimate relationship Geordie developed with the birds instilled him with a profound connection to nature and wildlife, with much of his metal work representing elements of nature. Geordie Lishman currently resides in Ajax, Ontario on the farm first settled by his great-great-great-grandparents in the early 1800′s.

Christina Leslie is a lens-based artist from Toronto, who earned a BFA from OCADU in 2006 and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2022. Notable speaking engagements include the Society for Photographic Education conference in Philadelphia (2010), Royal Ontario Museum's Position as Desired symposium (2011), and the McMaster Museum of Art (2022 and 2023). Her work has appeared in prominent art journals such as MURZE art magazine, Divide Art Magazine, Art Seen Magazine, CAP Art Magazine, and Pitch Magazine. Her most recent photographic series Sugar Coat received praise from Ain't Bad Magazine, Featureshoot.com, and PetaPixel.com. It has been exhibited at BAND Gallery with support from the Honda Canada Foundation (2023), RIT City Art Space in Rochester, NY as part of the Homecoming Photo Biennial (2023), at the Exposure Festival in Calgary (2024), and will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in November 2024. Leslie's photographs have been exhibited at various institutions across the globe, including The GAMU in Prague, Oakland University in Michigan, The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada's Pier 21, The Art Gallery of Windsor, The Caribbean Art Fair in Jamaica, The McMaster Museum of Art, Paris Photo art fair, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Toronto and Patel Brown Gallery. Her Morant Bay series was featured prominently at the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival and the Capture Festival in Vancouver, where three photos from the series were converted into billboards. She was the 2024 curator of the SUMMA: YEARBOOK exhibition, the 4th year undergraduate thesis show at the McMaster Museum of Art. Her EveryTING Irie series is part of Dr. Kenneth Montague's "The Wedge Collection" and is in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her art practice focuses on themes that delve into decolonization, identity, immigration, marginalization, history, memory, race, and her West Indian background, which she explores via various experimental photography methods and text. Leslie is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.

LeuWebb Projects is the creative union between artists Christine Leu and Alan Webb, through which they mobilize their professional design backgrounds to produce moments of beauty in the public realm. With each piece, they explore how a site’s qualities can serve as metaphors for storytelling and critical discourse. They imagine how art can tangibly evoke past, current, and future narratives for a richer experience of place.

Malik McKoy (b. 1995, Surrey, B.C.) is an emerging artist whose practice consists of painting and digital media. McKoy attempts to create a visual world that encompasses both the analog and the digital. The subject matter of the work is a reflection of the banal qualities of his personal anecdotes, translated through a vibrant and playful lens. He is currently pursuing his MFA degree at Concordia University. Wrapping up in August, McKoy has been a resident of World Creation Studio’s residency program, CO/CREATE. He is also recently exhibited at Patel Brown Gallery in a group show titled A Nearly Tangible Fiction. McKoy has previously exhibited work at Trinity Square Video, Susan Hobbs Gallery, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, among others.

Brigitte Sampogna is an interdisciplinary artist based in Whitby whose practice involves photography, video, installation, and sewing work. Exploring how the everyday functional object can become a metaphor for the inner workings of the self, Sampogna engages domestic symbolism to discover remnants of the human experience in places we tend to overlook. Often using translucent/transparent materials she searches to uncover the vulnerability in the protective nature of objects. She holds a BFA from OCAD University in Integrated Media (2020). Her work has been exhibited with DRIFF (Durham Regional International Film Festival), Ignite Gallery, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, and most recently she completed the RBC Emerging Artist Residency Program at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

Andil Gosine is Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University, and a graduate of R.S. McLaughlin CVI. His forthcoming exhibition Nature's Wild at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC will open in Summer 2025, and grows from his 2021 book, Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean. He is currently the 2024 Beinecke Fellow at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA.