NOTHING IS WHAT IT WAS // MAY 9th
This international exhibition brings together 36 artists working in collage and mixed media. These are practices rooted in fragmentation, reassembly, and transformation.
Through cutting, layering, and recontextualizing, these works challenge fixed meanings and stable histories. Images are disrupted and rebuilt, shifting between memory and invention, the personal and the political.
Nothing here remains singular or resolved. Meaning stays in motion.
In celebration of World Collage Day on May 9 from 11am til 2pm the exhibition expands beyond the walls with a public collage party and button-making event inviting visitors to take part in the act of reimagining and reconstruction. Coffee will be served by our pals @funk.coffee_ to keep you fueled.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Exhibition Dates: May 9 - May 10, 2026
World Collage Day Party: maker meetup, coffee pop-up and collage making party
Location: Astro Club Artist Facility (East Vancouver / Mount Pleasant) @astroclubartistfacility
Admission: Free / by donation
FEATURED ARTISTS
@a.d.r.items@alisonkeenanart@auroracaher@bc.ephemera@cathhughesart@catandpastestudio@collagexmanon@danorvil@dibbledibble@dyvna.arts@e_bonezz@him_asterisk@jessadupuis@juney_yun_visual_artist@katemacdonaldarts@krickla1@ladys_playground@lizruest@nicolamacneilart@notapythia@rachel_ashe@vinnytheguyofficial@vitoantoniolerario@willy.o.art@words_stuff_by_gab
ABOUT WORLD COLLAGE DAY
World Collage Day is an international celebration of collage, held annually on the second Saturday of May. Artists and organizations worldwide participate through exhibitions, workshops, and public programming. WCD was launched by @kolajmagazine in 2018. They say, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honour this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.”
VCC are so thrilled to be part of this community!
You asked for it! A second print edition of The Collage Almanac is hot off the press. It’s only April 3rd today and 272 days left of the year. That means an extra 93 cut outs for your daily collage challenge in this compendium. Quite the accomplishment to cut and glue! ✂️
FUTURE-past Larder closes tonight March 31st 5pm - 9pm.
Come by @slicevancouver to see the show before it’s packed back into my kitchen cupboards. Thank you to every single one of you who stopped by and sent me kind words of support!
MEET OUR LABEL ARTIST // Come hang with our friend and local collage legend @e_bonezz - the creative force behind our funky coffee labels!
She also made the sticker sets hidden inside our Funky 4-packs (keep an eye out for their return 👀), and we’ve even put her work on our t-shirts.
Find her sticker sets inside our Funky 4-packs (keep an eye out for their return 👀), greeting cards on the shelves at @funk.coffeebar , and designs on our t-shirts available in our web shop.
Better yet - go check out her exhibit, which just opened at @slicevancouver 🤘
Ebs, you’re a boss 💜
#collageartist #meetthegenius #designincoffee
🍋 OPENING TONIGHT 🍋 "Future-Past Larder" by @e_bonezz .
In Future-Past Larder, the kitchen becomes a time machine and the archive becomes a pantry. These recent collages by artist @e_bonezz merge retro culinary imagery with speculative gestures, blurring the line between ancestral memory and imagined futures. The works sift through cultural leftovers including family recipes, inherited rituals, and mass-produced food photography to reveal how personal and collective histories are stored, preserved, and repurposed. Part science-fiction, part domestic archaeology, the exhibition maps the currents that run between eras, showing how the past nourishes the future and how every act of remembering is a form of reinvention.
Join us for the opening party TONIGHT, or stop by during open hours from now until Tuesday!
🎈 THURSDAY OPENING PARTY: 6-10pm - 19+ only!
👀 GALLERY VIEWING HOURS: Thursday to Tuesday, 10am-10pm
🎨 MEET THE ARTIST: Saturday & Sunday from 1-7pm
Come hang out at Slice of Life Gallery & Studios,
Located at 1636 Venables, near the corner of Venables and Commercial Drive.
I’ve had my studio door shut tight this week to get finish works I’ve had half complete for a while.
I’m a procrastinator when it comes things I care deeply about. It irks me but I imagine the scenario rolling out with perfection and I loop in research and process rather than just getting the fucking thing done. So it’s now two days before install my first solo show and havent taken a single photo of anything until my 3 hours sprint in the studio tonight. Headphones on, listening to every album I said I would listed to last year.
Here it is! You’ll have come hang out with me at the show to see the rest 😉
Finishing touches for my first solo show @slicevancouver include tidying up scraps and archiving for later. After two years of collecting for specific themes and serial studio reorganization when I’m unfocused, the buckets of “I’ll use this someday” needed a cleanup.
Today there were many conversations with fellow artists and mentors about beating creative blocks and finding structure. The takeaway? No magic formula, just putting in the work piece by piece until it feels right. We finesse, change the method, the approach, the frame.
It’s time for me to finesse and it’s feeling freaking awesome 🤩
