Meet the amazing artists behind downtown Vancouver’s street banners, each reflecting their unique style and inspiration from the streets.
West Hastings Street Banners
Meet Carolyn Wong, the artist behind the new banners on West Hastings St!
Carolyn is an illustrator and mural artist based in Vancouver, BC. She has a deep love for storytelling and thrives to create vibrant illustrations that celebrate nature and community values. She is a Chinese Canadian artist and has collaborated on design projects with national institutions, local municipalities, and small businesses. As a first-generation Chinese-Canadian, her work is a reflection of both eastern and western influences as she draws on nostalgic themes that resonate with diaspora communities. Carolyn’s artwork celebrates the beauty of nature using colourful graphic forms combined with dynamic natural elements.
Check out more of her work on her page.
Alberni Street Banners
Meet Anais Lera, the artist behind the new banners on Alberni St!
Anais Lera is a French visual artist currently living in Vancouver. Originally from the South of France, she spent her childhood between the mountains and the ocean. As a kid with a passion for biology, she explored her surroundings with a microscope —a playful study that has profoundly shaped her artistic practice. She likes to describe her work as sitting at the intersection of illustration and design and specializing in vibrant and intricate otherworldly ecosystems, toeing the border of science and fiction. Her portfolio contains vivid, intricate compositions filled with flora and fauna from beyond the earth’s dimension and she’s interested in projects that centre around themes of nature and exploration.
Check out more of her work on her page.
Davie Street Banners
Meet Matt Hanns Schroeter, the artist behind the new banners on Davie St!
Matt is an expert in product design, front-end development, illustration and branding, with 10 years of experience working in the field. Matt is passionate about serving the community and aims to share his creative skills with the organizations that need them. He’s often brought in to streamline and enhance the creative direction for both digital and print projects. Matt is also skilled in front-end development, illustration, and branding—often bridging creative, development, and management teams to make projects successful.
Check out more of his work on his page.
Granville Street Banners
Meet Sandeep Johal, the artist behind the new banners on Granville St!
Sandeep is a Canadian visual artist, advocate, and leader whose practice engages drawing, collage, textiles, and large-scale murals. Through her Indo-folk feminine aesthetic, she confronts themes of bleakness, despair and ugliness with their dissonant opposites: brightness, hope and beauty. Her work typically centers around the stories of women and while she highlights female suffering in its many forms, these are ultimately stories of resistance and resilience.
Check out more of her work on her page.
