Bug Cru is an interdisciplinary visual artist based on Coast Salish land, colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. They are white, mixed ancestry, disabled, crazy, queer and trans. Influenced by DIY culture, disability justice, mad liberation, anticapitalist and decolonial movements. They understand themself as a fruit of the communities, worlds and people who change and uplift them. Drawing is core to their practice both in their personal work and trades as an illustrator and relational tattooer. Their mediums include pen and ink, graphite, multimedia, digital art, watercolour, gouache, acrylic, textiles, sculpture and printmaking. They are a painter, printmaker, comic artist, art educator, zine maker, cross-stitcher, poet and author.

They understand dreaming and inspiration as living components of collective livelihood and see their role as an artist as constructing hope. They aspire to make art that offers reflection and invitation to everyone who feels called to it. Seeing art as a doorway, passage, portal, mirror and witness. Looking at self documentation as empowered history and story telling as survival; theirs is a rejection of status-quo reality and a navigation of the magic of queerness and interconnection. It is a homage to the concepts of self, reality and time as fluid and non-linear and an envisioning of dreamworld futures made tangible through freak art and magical realism.

Bug’s work has been published by Mélange, The Capilano Review, SAD Mag, Sheer Spite Press, Moniker Press, Dyke News and Broken Pencil among others. They studied at OCADU, are self-published and distributed internationally and have professional affiliations with CARFAC, Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture and Queer Design Club.


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