A1

Hamilton Urban Sketchers / Hamilton Plein Air Artists Collective

 

A2

Koe Design

Benches

Artist statement: I am interested in creating public works drawing from my own lived experience and by doing so I hope to create work that resonates with viewers, knowing that my truth is universal. I am so grateful to live this life where I can connect with you all through my work.

 

A3

Anthony Haley

Live Painting

 

A4

Cardinal Handyman

SUPERCRAWL

 

A5

City Centre Murals

feat. Monkyi x Mr. Myl x Anthony Haley

 

A6

Hiero x Bacon x KWest x Tuke One

 

A7/A23

Scott McDonald

 

A8

Hiero x Bacon

 

A9

Lishai Peel

 

A10

Tom Wilson Tehohàhake

Prayer #1

Artist Statement: “This is all I have; there’s nothing else, just these shapes, colours, obsessive details, and words rising from blood, dropping me into meditation, filling my room with silence, and calming my restlessness. They’re for you now. This art isn’t a kind gesture; this art sometimes feels like a bar fight; it’s survival; it’s my guttural scream over the rooftops; it’s my journey. I’m scratching at the truth now, and I won’t stop until they’re throwing dirt on my memories. I seek it out in the inspiration that comes on the banks of the seaways, on the edge of escarpments, and in the centre of rusting industries—the places I’ve lived and the place I’ve always belonged. I’m on a path that keeps me guessing, following stars in the night sky and lights down hallways. Long-distance drives looking for the nails used to hang my heroes to their crosses. The stories from my true home come to me and lead me forward through time, through these days.”

Artist Biography: Tom Wilson, known by his Mohawk name Tehohàhake (“two roads”), is a Canadian musician, author, and visual artist. Wilson’s 2017 memoir, Beautiful Scars (Penguin/Random House) has become a national bestseller, and went on to be adapted into a documentary directed by Shane Belcourt as well as a stage musical developed in collaboration with actor/writer Shaun Smyth. Exposing incredible truths about Wilson’s biological family and Indigenous heritage, Beautiful Scars delves into the singer-songwriter’s lifetime quest to find himself and ultimately uncover his true identity as a Mohawk man. Tom’s paintings have been featured in galleries across Canada and celebrated in the English/Mohawk art book Mohawk Warriors, Hunters and Chiefs: The Art Of Tom Wilson Tehohàhake (Goose Lane Editions). The artist’s extensive career and tireless efforts as a musician has bestowed upon him numerous nominations and awards from the Hamilton Music Awards to the Polaris Music Prize to the Juno Awards, as well as certified gold and platinum records. His songwriting has seen his works recorded by and with artists such as Sarah McLachlan, City and Colour, Jason Isbell, Colin James, Lucinda Williams, Billy Ray Cyrus, Mavis Staples, The Rankin Family, as well as his own bands Junkhouse, the Canadian treasure: Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and the Clinton Street collective: Lee Harvey Osmond band, awarded a 2020 JUNO Award for the album Mohawk. Wilson was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Canada in June 2023.

 

A11

Cesar Correa Cordoba

Mantis

 

A12

Caleb Culmone

The Roomless Room

The Roomless Room is an immersive architectural installation that deconstructs the familiar elements and relationships of the built environment. Throughout the installation, a door hangs out of reach, a roof sits on the ground, a stair leads nowhere, a chair challenges gravity, a window has no other side, and a toilet without privacy confronts our expectations of comfort and enclosure. By making the familiar uncertain, The Roomless Room asks you to reconsider the meanings we give these forms and invites you to project your own meanings, memories, and associations onto the space, bringing the subconscious into awareness and allowing you to explore your own mind through architecture.

 

A13

Cornelia Peckart

Ambitious City Park

Ambitious City Park is a modular, immersive art installation designed to offer Supercrawl visitors a moment of refuge within an urban festival environment. Cornelia Peckart has painted two dozen biodegradable compost bags and arranged them into a temporary garden. Ambitious City Park invites reflection on nature, accessibility, and the temporality of art displayed in public spaces.

 

A14

Bailey Christiansen

Luminous

 

A15

Centre[4] Arts

The Sari-Sari Xchange

The Sari-Sari Xchange is a community-building research and creation project using Extended Reality (XR) (ie. Virtual, Augmented, Mixed Realities) to foster new works by artists from the Asian diaspora. We undertake exploration in emergent XR technologies and new storytelling techniques, address under-representation and issues of systemic racism as well as inaccessibility of these new technologies for both creators and users with disabilities.

 

A16

Inspiredbuthellatired

Reclaimed Reverence

“Over the past year, I’ve collected discarded and donated porcelain from local shops, social media groups, and curbside finds. I’m giving these forgotten pieces new life by turning them into a large-scale mosaic that celebrates memory and everyday objects. This project also reflects the generosity of the community and shows how meaningful art can be made from what others no longer need.”

 

A17

Taylor Gloom

Residual Matter

Residual Matter explores how much life and utility remain in our belongings after we dispose of them by transforming the physical remnants of textile waste into a space for collective memory. Inspired by the nostalgia of childhood blanket forts, the structure is hand built from fabric scraps and clothing deemed beyond repair. This work invites the community to look, touch and reflect on the artificial lifespan we impose on our clothes, proving that renewal is always possible in what we leave behind.

 

A18

Caillin Kowalczyk

The Galvanized City

Collaboration: lighting sequencing + design by Petrie Rogers

This work uses the interior of a classic 1974 VW Type 1 (often referred to as a Beetle or Bug) to explore the influences and elements that continue to galvanize the artist to create, as an ever-evolving cityscape. Inspired by Kim Adams’ Bruegel-Bosch Bus from the collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Caillin presents his influences from the interplay of art, illustration, pop culture imagery, architecture, and a sense of shared place, as an autobiographical story in miniature form.

 

A19

Art Gallery of Hamilton: Beyond the Frame

 

A20

Dear Bear Multi-Arts

Why Don’t We Together 

Why Don’t We Together is an electric and intimate audio-visual installation featuring original Canadian audio short stories, rich soundscapes, and immersive lighting. The whole experience takes place inside “The Hut” – a cozy octagonal structure, where up to 8 audience members can collectively choose from a selection of short audio stories just by pushing a button. Once they do: the walls, seats, ceilings, and airwaves come alive to transport everyone into the world of each story.

 

A21

Aiden Basso

What Lurks Beneath

Touching on topics of mental health and depression, the sewers are framed into a metaphor for a persons mentally disturbed brain, representing the feeling of being trapped in the state of their emotions. The moulded human fingers represent the human feeling of alienation, and depict the angsty and horror emotions caused by poor mental health. The piece delievers a feeling of sympathy and asks questions about how mental health is stereotyped and and misunderstood.

 

A22

Arts4All: Artasia

Imagine This Place

This summer, Artasia invited children across Greater Hamilton to experience the places around them through their senses—to look closely, listen carefully, notice textures, follow smells, and imagine what could be different. Across five weeks and many neighbourhoods, children became researchers of the places they know. They traced what they saw on acetate, collected textures and sounds, mapped familiar and unfamiliar smells, photographed what caught their attention, and imagined new possibilities for the places they share. Along the way, we were continually reminded that children notice things adults often pass by. Their observations invited us to slow down. Imagine This Place brings that invitation to Supercrawl. We invite you to slow down. Look again. Leave a trace. Imagine this place