Tyler James Goin, Bettina Mueller Riechl, Mario Pao 2025 Applied Art + Design Award Compilation Film
Discover the creativity and innovation of the 2025 Applied Art + Design Award recipients—Tyler James Goin - Judson Beaumont Emerging Artist, Bettina Mueller Reichl; and Mario Pao. Their work transforms functional art into powerful expression through ceramics, furniture, textiles, and design. Experience their vision, craft, and inspiring journeys shaping BC’s applied art landscape. Congratulations to the Award Recipients! Tyler James Goin (Vancouver) | Judson Beaumont Emerging Artist Bettina Mueller Reichl (Vancouver) Mario Pao (Vancouver) Presented by BC Achievement, this film showcases how applied art and design influence how we live, connect, and imagine what’s possible.
A Q&A with artist Jennifer Latour
October Fog, Jennifer Latour
Tell us about yourself: where did your creative journey begin, and what led you to becoming an artist?
I have a vivid memory of being quite obsessed with The Wind in the Willows pop up book. It was the first book that I remember having dreams about and I owe my vivid imagination to that, no doubt. Music videos were a huge influence from the beginning, to me it’s the perfect blend of art, cinema, fashion, set design etc. Artists like Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, Jonathan Glazer to name a few were the firsts blowing my mind with their incredible visual candy. I didn’t grow up with anyone to talk to about what inspired me, so I just kept the creative side mostly to myself until I moved to the UK in 2003. Once there it was like a bomb went off inside me and I was creating with pretty much anything I touched. As someone who needs a lot of visual stimulation the city is a playground of inspiration and endless stories.
Tyler James Goin: BC Achievement Foundation
Tyler James Goin is an emerging voice in contemporary ceramics and metal-based craft, recognized for sculptural works that merge industrial precision with emotional depth. With nearly two decades of creative exploration across painting, music, and writing—and early mentorship from sculptor Tony Bloom—Tyler brings rare interdisciplinary fluency to his practice. His foundation as a Red Seal Millwright in Vancouver’s heavy industrial sector grounds his work in structure, material sensitivity, and a deep respect for process.
VANS COMMUNITY SERIES: LES RAMSAY
5 years ago painter/sculptor Les Ramsay relocated his practice from the bustle of city life in Vancouver to a serene home/studio along B.C.’s scenic Sunshine Coast. Alongside his partner, artist Colleen Heslin, the two have created a space wholly their own in Powell River. Focusing on art from scratch, Les has taken on new influences, inspired by the captivating scenery of this updated environment. His metaphorical art practice is rooted in methods of formal abstraction with an intuitive material processes developed from both inside and outside the studio. Exhibiting his work throughout Canada, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and across the US, Les has come to revere the serenity of an art practice at a slow pace.
residence: Les Ramsay interview
A conversation conducted between Montréal and London with writer and editor Nathalie Agostini and Canadian painter Les Ramsay on the concept of “weird,” collecting, and language.
Let’s start with a quote of yours from a previous interview: “I’m big on trying to outweird myself… I need that challenge or else it’s easy for things to become just decorative.” Around the advent of photography, Walter Benjamin defined the concept of “aura” as the quality essential to an artwork that cannot be mediated through techniques of mechanical reproduction. How do you see the relationship between the concepts of “weird” and “aura” when it comes to a quality that cannot be mediated technically, and mass-produced?
Rhys Edwards: LA COMMUNE 2021
During the Parisian Commune, Gustave Courbet led the Federation of Artists. They called for a Communal Luxury in art-making. But Courbet himself did not produce any images of the Commune. Herein lies the poetic fissure: the gulf between what it is possible to represent, and what it is not. Like the Commune, painting is an attempt to envision the impossible.
Rhys Edwards is an emerging artist, curator, and writer. He is an Assistant Curator at Surrey Art Gallery, where he most recently curated the permanent collection exhibition, Where We Have Been. He has written for Canadian Art, The Capilano Review, C Magazine, and BC Studies.
Odes to Joy: Remembering Cini Boeri (1924-2020)
Ask most architects to describe the objectives behind their designs and the same few words — impact, performance, flexibility — tend to come up. But joy? Not so much. That’s what makes the work and legacy of Cini Boeri, the Italian architect and furniture designer who died in Milan on September 9 aged 96, so unique — and timely.
Les Ramsay: BORDERCROSSINGS
“The sea is everything,” wrote Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. “It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe.… It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” As such, no human vision of the sea can be finite; each connects and merges with those of others elsewhere, sometimes quite distant in space and time.
Visitors to Les Ramsay’s recent exhibition “The Adventures of Atrevida Reef” will have encountered such a dynamic. As the media release states, “Atrevida is Spanish for ‘bold’ and references significant landmarks near the artist’s rural studio/home” on BC’s Sunshine Coast. Atrevida Reef is indeed an underwater feature off that coast a short way north of Tla’amin First Nation. Yet, the exhibition’s visual language traverses a broader circuit, pointing at themes and motifs from oceanic environments and seafaring cultures around the globe, even across millennia. The ocean divides cultures from one another, true—but to a soul with a boat, it is a superhighway around the world and has been since antiquity.
Cini Boeri
Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno—better known as Cini Boeri—is a leading Italian architect and designer, the mother of the internationally renowned architect Stefano Boeri.
She graduated in architecture in 1951 from the Politecnico University in Milan. After a short experience with Gio Ponti—a famous master of Italian design and architecture—she started to collaborate with Marco Zanuso, another acclaimed architect and designer.