Collection: Jade Mikell

JADE MIKELL (Callahan-Auger) is an emerging Autistic, interdisciplinary artist + activist working within post-minimalist institutional critique. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, by way of a wee Island in BC’s Northern Islands. She is currently earning her BFA from the University of Victoria.

Jade cogitates deeply a youth in a Waldorf community, and her experience in Eurythmy to direct her work. Jade seeks to inspect advocacy, disability identity and symbiotic relationships to the Earth; she uses entirely upcycled materials in efforts to minimise her impact. She seeks to hold space + investigate the roles of form, sound, ritual, comfort, semiotics, inheritance, uniformity, social currency + intersections of accessibility.

she is further moved to create by her immediate environment, birds + eggs, intentional witness, woven cloth, midcentury architecture, Japanese + Nordic design principles, the nature of touch, and the works of her Great-Grandfather, artist and curator Kenneth Callahan.

her work has been featured in solo exhibits, group shows, brick + mortar stockists and in the homes of collectors internationally. She has lectured with the Esquimalt Art Gallery and was included in the University of Victoria’s Department of Psychology’s Visiting Artist’s feature.