Walking Art Tour
To return in 2021!
The Cabbagetown Art Walk is a fun and safe way to discover and explore our vibrant community. The tour brings together the work of seven notable Toronto-based artists. Enjoy their art while having a relaxing meal on one of our beautiful patios, and while shopping at our unique local businesses!
— Featured Artists —
Patrick Hunter
Located at: Stout Irish Pub, 221 Carlton St.
Patrick Hunter is an Ojibwe, 2spirit, Woodland and graphic artist from Red Lake, ON. His works are inspired by his homeland, the works of Norval Morrisseau, and the Canadian Group of 7.
Patrick Hunter Art & Design was launched in 2014 with the intent to make artwork that makes people feel good. Since then, Patrick has been able to reach new audiences by adapting his work to be placed on apparel, houseware items and digital applications.
His strong yet elegant graphic work invites us to realize that everything has spirit and significance. Everything from the smallest seed to the largest tree.
Check out Patrick’s work below:
Chihiro Segi
Located at: Kingo Izakaya, 51b Winchester St.
Chihiro Segi has been a Graphic Designer and illustrator for 9 years. She has worked with a wide range of clients creating Pattern Design/ Logo design/ Packaging/ Editorial Design/ Illustration/ Website layout/ Calligraphy and more.
Chihiro developed most of her technical skills in Japan and relocated to Toronto to continue her passion. She always seeks to make designs from scratch, blended with a taste of current trend, originality and creativity to make timeless designs.
Check out Chihiro’s work below:
Sarah Hunter
Located at: F’Amelia, 12 Amelia St.
Sarah Hunter knew she wanted to be an artist by the age of 10 years old. She studied art through high school and completed her grade 12 at Woodstock International school in Mussoorie, Uttar Pradesh, India, where she received a special visual arts award.
She then went on to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Sarah Lawrence College in the Bronxville N. Y. just outside of New York City, where she studied Painting, Sculpture, Photography and Ceramics. Sarah returned to Toronto to do a post-graduate degree in Arts Education at the University of Toronto and continued her studies in visual arts at the Toronto School of Art.
Sarah has always worked in an expressionistic style and combines images of animals, humans and the natural world in her work. She is currently exploring imagery drawn from sketches she makes while watching films. She then takes these images and re-imagines and reconstructs them through a collage process onto wooden Boards.
Check out Sarah’s work below:
Fats Patrol
Located at: Peartree Restaurant, 507 Parliament St.
Fatspatrol (Fathima) is an Indian-Canadian artist born and raised in Dubai. Her work is a study of symbols and semiotics and our drive to make sense of the world through mythology, folklore and storytelling. A 3rd culture kid who has spent most of her life influenced by multiple cultures but not fully identified by one, she seeks to find narratives and messages that resonate across borders and categories.
Fats’ style of drawing takes inspiration from illustrations and comic books (her brother is a cartoonist). Her style also resonates of Indian block printed fabrics, Arabic calligraphy, and other ethnic patterns and visual influences. Her art isn’t so much about a particular culture but rather a fusion of several that all seek to tell the same stories and connect people.
Immigrating to Canada when she was 17, Fats completed a BA in Art and Culture at U of T and later an MA in Sociology in the UK. Through her studies, she has developed a love for art with purpose, particularly public art and outreach. Fats travels across the world to work with challenged communities, most recently in India and Jordan.
In 2010, she was awarded the Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award in Dubai. And in 2011, she founded The Domino, a small business and platform that has helped pave the way for Dubai’s artist community and grassroots movement.
These heads were originally drawn for an issue of Kult, a magazine based in Singapore, themed around identity and meant to depict varying identities of the same person: the artist. The two in the middle were then added as an exploration of barriers and connect as a result of social distancing.
This project is supported by The STEPS Initiative as part of their Main Street Art Challenge.
Check out Fats’ work below:
James Fowler
Located at: House on Parliament, 454 Parliament St.
Drawing inspiration from aerial views of cities and maps, James Fowler's acrylic, oil and gouache works on canvas, paper, and wood are playfully geometric and resonate with the digital world, and culture of online information distribution. His non-traditional landscape paintings borrow from cartography and geometric abstraction, and celebrate both urban centres and rural living. He attended York University in Toronto for Film Studies and maintains a full time studio practice as a painter in Toronto. His work has been exhibited in Canada and United States, and his work can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, US and Europe.
Check out James’ work below:
Taylor Ray
Located at: Saigon Pai, 446 Parliament St
Taylor Ray is a nomadic multidisciplinary artist + designer with a love for illustration and interactive art. She graduated Fleming College: Haliburton School of Art + Design in 2019 with an Integrated Design Diploma, Digital Image Design Diploma and spoke as the Valedictorian of her class.
Since a young age, Taylor always believed that her destiny was to bring the sunshine to the hapless moments of life within her family, herself or the world at large. She believes that manifesting this energy can change the world for the better and offer a non-threatening opportunity for communication and social change.
The novel Coronavirus has put many of us in unimaginable situations. For some, it has given us the time to reflect on our lives, discover what is important to us and explore new passions that we couldn’t make time for before. I created these pals rediscovering their joy in isolation with vibrance and simplicity. Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes the most devastating times can bring us unpredictable gifts.
Check out Taylor’s work below:
Duncan C. McLean
Located at: Chew Chew’s Diner, 186 Carlton St.
Duncan C. McLean was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954. McLean attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal in the early 1970s. After moving to Toronto in 1978 he trained at George Brown College in the Signwriting program.
McLean, in his current art practice, explores ultra-low resolution digital photographs, where the square pixels that make up his images are fairly large and sharp. If the subject of McLean’s photo contains a significant number of square bits, like a building or city street, the grid of digital pixels may mesh with the rectangular shapes of the architecture to create an interesting interplay between image and pattern.
Some of McLean’s favourite subjects for this retro-style, 8-bit artistic treatment are Toronto’s high-rise office towers and condos. The result becomes an abstracted composition of colour and form, where glass and steel and atmosphere dissolve and re-emerge in a syncopated geometry.
This project is supported by The STEPS Initiative as part of their Main Street Art Challenge.
Check out Duncan’s work below:
