Kathryn is a healer, artist and writer, She has been a practicing paediatrician for 32 years. In 2010 she took a deep dive to become a critical thinker and art practitioner, receiving her BFA from the now Alberta University of the Arts in 2014. She went on to obtain her MFA in June 2022 from the University of Hartford, Connecticut. Kathryn believes that knowledge acquired through exploration and diversity of inquiry generates rich, wholistic epistemologies. She is passionate about providing a space where such deep work can be generated. Kathryn’s multimedia work includes 2D, textile, video, sound and poetry. Kathryn works to provide cultural responses to global conditions of this time and hopes the work can be healing and generative. Her work investigates relationships with the natural world. Through her research she hopes to deeply understand her immediate landscape and how the ecology of the psyche is entangled with those of the land and our more-than-human companions.

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Nathan Turner is a guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer, and music educator from Vancouver, BC. A frequent collaborator, Nathan holds ten cumulative releases and seven years of international touring within his four projects, Nathan Turner, Logan and Nathan, The Honey Tongues, and Red Haven. He is an !earshot Top 50 National charting producer and artist with his duo Logan and Nathan. In his various projects Turner has played on stages across Canada, the USA, and the UK, with notable performances at Vancouver Island Music Fest, Canmore Folk Fest, All Folk'd Up, and Cold Snap. He has a certificate in Audio Engineering and Production from Pacific Audio Visual Institute and a Music Diploma in jazz and contemporary guitar from Vancouver Community College. Upon graduating from PAVI Nathan became an engineer at Monarch Studios, gaining a list of notable credits as a recording engineer, mixing engineer, and musician. As an educator, Nathan currently teaches guitar and ensemble classes at Saint James Music Academy, Sarah McLachlan School of Music and Deep Cove Music.

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Logan Thackray is a multidisciplinary artist and community arts programmer who is dedicated to creating spaces of wonder and creativity. Logan graduated with a BA in Anthropology in 2018 from the University of British Columbia. They have worked in a number of communities, including northern Quebec - always through the generative lens of art making. Logan currently works as an arts programmer and public art manager for West Vancouver and hopes that through artistic practices, people find ways to navigate complex conversations and ideas. Logan works in service to guide/pull the community together in ways that have the potential to foster wonder, belonging and connection. They are currently most lit up by the wild and unexpected ways that humans and other living beings collide. Logan’s artistic practice allows them to work with ephemeral materials such as light, memory, movement, and form. Logan is grateful to be working with their loved ones and is so excited to meet and support all the beings who visit Slough Studios.

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