Artist-in-Residence: Bre McDaniel

“Thoreau” by Bre Mcdaniel

Introducing Wild Bird Trust’s featured artist-in-residence 2020 at the Corrigan Nature House. Bre McDaniel will be engaging on site beginning in spring until early fall, doing field recordings, making drawings, joining walks, talks, events, reaching out to meet community members and possibly offering workshops.

Bre McDaniel completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University in 2013 with a focus in painting and illustration. During her degree she began performing as a singer-songwriter, and has since toured across Canada multiple times, following in her mother’s footsteps. Her past recordings have been described as having “an ethereal but intimate dream-folk sound,” (The Georgia Straight) and her recent full length, Howl ruminates on how “we need the tonic of wildness”, as Henry David Thoreau says.

Born and based in Vancouver, she works in a range of traditional media including ink, graphite, watercolours, acrylic and oil paint. She is a founding member of Open Book Art Collective, and her experience as a support worker has influenced both her art making and passion for inclusion.