About

I love making things, and really enjoy turning an idea into something you can touch, watch, play with, listen to, or experience.

I’m a Toronto-based visual artist, creative producer, and director working across film, photography, illustration, motion graphics, character work, interactive media, public art, and physical work. I’m interested in consumer culture, nostalgia, technology, class, and the systems that shape creative work.

Visually, my work draws from games, animation, graphic art, and mass-media imagery. Projects often move between formats, with the medium following the idea rather than the other way around.

I also founded Leek, an artist-owned production company that grew from my independent practice. Through Leek I produce commissioned, nonprofit, cultural, and self-initiated work from concept through production and post, sometimes assembling teams and sometimes making the work directly.

Highlights

Selected Clients & Collaborators

Kids Help Phone, Why Not Theatre, Nissan Canada, City of Toronto, Tim Hortons, Canadian Tire, PRIDE Toronto, Warner Music Mexico, Queen’s University, Athabasca Tribal Council, Franklin Management Group, T1 Agency, Blue Crane Agency, Balsom Communications

Selected Work

Steve Dies — original mixed-media world spanning game development, illustration, character animation, physical art, and interactive media
Found No. — public and studio work built from retro-game glitches, technical errors, and broken systems
Home Videos — long-running music and documentary project examining access, cultural infrastructure, and the conditions artists work within
Art in Place — documentary series about Fort McMurray’s arts community
Alberta — photo series on displacement, landscape, memory, and recovery after the Horse River wildfire
everything i wanted to tell you — interactive film adaptation of a contemporary dance work

Highlights

Awards & Selections

STRATFEST@HOME, 2026: Official Selection, everything i wanted to tell you
DIGITAL ZED, ZED Festival 2026: Official Selection, everything i wanted to tell you
Berlin Kiez Film Festival, 2025:
 Best Dance Film, everything i wanted to tell you
Arts Council Wood Buffalo, 2019: Excellence in Arts Awards, Official Selection, Art in Place
Arts Council Wood Buffalo, 2019: Excellence in Media Arts, Nominee, Art in Place
Rising Tide: Surfacing POC Artists, 2018: [decoherence] presented at the Toronto showcase

Grants & Industry Support

Ontario Creates, 2020: Interactive Digital Media Fund Futures, Steve Dies
SpielFabrique, 2024: MATCH, Steve Dies
OYA Black Arts Coalition, 2025: Career Bridge Grant Program, supporting development of Home Videos
OYA Black Arts Coalition, 2024: Career Leap Training Program
BIPOC TV & Film, 2024: Delegate, Sustainable Production Forum

Press & Media

Campaign Canada / POCAM, 2025: profile
BlogTO, Daily Hive, Diario El Popular, 2024: coverage of Found No. public interventions
Strategy Online, 2024: image from Found No. used in editorial coverage
Your McMurray Magazine, 2019: “Art In Place: Visual Storytelling as a Means of Rebuilding”
Noisey / VICE, 2017: feature on Kaleidoscope Horse’s “Idious Carrie”