About

Emily is an artist and community organizer from Vancouver Island. She comes from two lines of restless settlers: Hokkien Chinese-Malaysians, and Mennonites who immigrated to Treaty 1 territory.

Emily learned how to paint murals in an art collective in Singapore, and cut her teeth illustrating protest posters and screen printing patches on bed sheets in university. From 2022-2025 she worked as a screen printer, following a craving to make things with her own two hands. In 2026 she is studying Mandarin in Taiwan.

Her work is inspired by plants and animals, magic, and people power.

The artist with Ama in 1995