Student Artist Profile Archives

Natasha Beaudoin talks Greek mythology as inspiration for her subversive paintings

Written on March 26, 2021. Posted in Arts.

Editors’ Note: One member of The Journal’s Editorial Board is an Editor in Chief of the Undergraduate Review. For many artists, historical representations are meaningful sources of inspiration for new work. Natasha Beaudoin, BFA’22, embodies this idea with her striking, subversive oil paintings which...

Short Story Contest Winner Natara Ng discusses loneliness in ‘Her Last Day’

Written on March 26, 2021. Posted in Arts.

Natara Ng, Kin ’23, won The Journal’s Winter 2021 short story contest for “Her Last Day,” the subtle tale of a lonely man tending a garden with a twist: both the man and his plants are more than meets the eye. In an interview with The Journal, Ng discussed her winning story and her writing style. “Right...

Short Story: Her Last Day

Written on March 26, 2021. Posted in Arts.

I enter the backyard to begin my last day of work before the season is over. The early September air is laden with desperate rays of white sunlight and warm winds that brush against me as I walk past the fountain in the middle of the yard. The lily pads bathe in the water, so estranged from the rest...

Student artists during COVID-19: Mikki Barnett talks pandemic art

Written on March 26, 2021. Posted in Arts.

Death smells like roses. At least, that’s the case for Mikki Barnett, Con-Ed ’21, whose tenfoot sculpture Perspective—a cave built from mirrors, chicken wire, rose-dyed polyester and twinkling lights—has been left to gather dust in Ontario Hall for over a year. Last March, Queen’s Fine Arts...

Poetry contest winner Emily Clare talks 'Allies'

Written on March 26, 2021. Posted in Arts.

“There is no faith within words of abhorrence,” writes Emily Clare, ArtSci ’21, winner of The Journal’s Winter 2021 poetry contest in her piece titled “Allies.” “I’ve been writing poetry and song since I was just a little girl. I’ve been doing it my whole life just as a way to process my thoughts...

‘How the West Was Won’: nana. talks new EP

Written on February 9, 2021. Posted in Arts.

Nana, CompSci ’21, worked on his new EP every day for six months. The Queen’s artist takes inspiration for his music from the cyclical nature of racial justice and how, over time, very little has been done to relieve the problems facing Black people. He was recently recognized by the YGK Kingston...

‘You don’t want your baby to be ugly’: Sam Kaiser on success of new EP

Written on February 5, 2021. Posted in Arts.

Sam Kaiser, ArtSci ’22, released a single last November called “Good Things,” an apt title considering it skyrocketed to three times more streams on Spotify than his next most popular song. “Good Things” was the first track Kaiser ever wrote while a publicist represented him, and the first of his...

Queen’s student launches artistic clay business

Written on January 29, 2021. Posted in Arts.

Cristina Foschia first discovered her love for artwork through her mother. “My mom paints and does a bunch of little artsy things,” Foschia said in an interview with The Journal. “I used to go to craft fairs when I was younger. I had all this clay and would make little keychains to sell while she...

BFA student has high hopes for fourth year

Written on September 9, 2019. Posted in Arts.

The final year of university can be daunting for students, but for Alexa Bjerknes, it’s a time of hopefulness. Fourth-year Fine Arts student (BFA ’20), Bjerknes talked about her first experiences with art, her current inspirations, and her hopes for the new school year. Bjerknes is a Kingston local....

Jodie Sloan unites heartbreak and health for Project Red

Written on February 12, 2019. Posted in Arts.

For Jodie Sloan, ArtSci ’19, art isn’t just a lens for understanding heartbreak and trauma: it’s catharsis. In her final year as a Fine Arts student, Sloan draws on personal experiences and her newfound passion for textiles to create clothing that captures emotional intensity, ranging from grief to...

Artist pits nature against industrialism

Written on January 25, 2019. Posted in Arts, Visual.

For Dominika Dembinski, fine art and decaying architecture are a natural duo. As of last year, Dembinski, BFA ’19, began exploring scenes of overgrown industrial architecture, unused factories and warehouses reclaimed by nature. It’s fundamentally an environmentally conscious piece of work. “My...

How Habiba Esaad gives art's nameless subject a face

Written on January 15, 2019. Posted in Arts, Visual.

Habiba Esaad wants to rewrite history. In her fourth year of the Fine Arts program at Queen’s, Esaad is looking inwards to her experience as a queer person of colour for inspiration to inform her critique of art history. For Esaad, the focus of her thesis project has been to look to art history as...

Victoria Kim paints the anxieties of introversion

Written on February 9, 2018. Posted in Arts.

For Victoria Kim, painting her feelings has typically been easier than explaining them. Ever since she was young, Kim, BFA ’18, can remember drawing, doodling and sketching. As a child she said it was one of the few ways she could confidently express herself to others. As a current fine arts undergrad,...

Eryn Mccarthy faces the art world

Written on January 19, 2018. Posted in Arts.

Eryn Mccarthy has been drawn to faces ever since she was young — it all started with painting friends and family members. “There was something about having an emotional connection to them that made them easier to paint,” Mccarthy said. The bond she shared with loved ones gave her the confidence...

Mackenzie Gregson brings tradition into the new millennium

Written on November 29, 2017. Posted in Arts.

Despite only being in her second year at Queen’s, Mackenzie Gregson already has her artwork on display at the Union Gallery. Titled ‘Bacon and Eggs,’ Gregson’s artwork is part of a new student exhibition Surface available for viewing from Nov. 17 to Jan. 12. The young artist sees her work as indicative...

Katarina Damiano’s “dream on canvas”

Written on October 4, 2017. Posted in Arts.

When Katarina Damiano woke up from a nightmare several weeks ago, her reaction was different from most. Rather than attempting to shake it off, she scrambled to write down the details, and then took the account straight to her professor. The dream would become the inspiration for her latest work...

Embracing the emotions behind dance

Written on October 23, 2015. Posted in Arts.

Student artist Meaghan Gallant has spent her life immersed in dance, but says it was at Queen’s that she connected most with the personal side of the art form. Gallant, the current co-president of the Queen’s Dance Club (QDC), has been dancing since she was three years old. She said dancing is the...

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Natasha Beaudoin talks Greek mythology as inspiration for her subversive paintings

Short Story Contest Winner Natara Ng discusses loneliness in ‘Her Last Day’

Short Story: Her Last Day

Student artists during COVID-19: Mikki Barnett talks pandemic art

Poetry contest winner Emily Clare talks 'Allies'

‘How the West Was Won’: nana. talks new EP

‘You don’t want your baby to be ugly’: Sam Kaiser on success of new EP

Queen’s student launches artistic clay business

BFA student has high hopes for fourth year

Jodie Sloan unites heartbreak and health for Project Red

Artist pits nature against industrialism

How Habiba Esaad gives art's nameless subject a face

Victoria Kim paints the anxieties of introversion

Eryn Mccarthy faces the art world

Mackenzie Gregson brings tradition into the new millennium

Katarina Damiano’s “dream on canvas”

Embracing the emotions behind dance

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