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🎨: Founder & Director of @fingerprint_gallery
👨‍💼: Prez of Belmont Plaza Corp
🏠: 🇨🇦 Van
🎓: VC 16’/Minerva 20’
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SEPTEMBER 2026 - shifting gears (gradually)

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A few more favourite pics from this summer at the Never Grow Up Graffiti Jam at Ashtrey Alley. Big thanks to all the fellow sponsors, organizers, artists, and people that came through.

Rest in Peace Cameo ❤️🕊️Thank you to the organizers for letting us preserve one of his final pieces at the entrance to the alley. 💐💐

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Recap of this year’s Never Grow Up Graffiti Jam 2026 at Ashtrey Alley in downtown Vancouver!

Over 70 artists and thousands of people were brought together for this epic long-weekend paint jam, now named in honour of the late founder Trey Helten aka Ashtrey aka Grow Up!

We were honoured to once again sponsor and be a part of this amazing legacy Trey has left for the community.

Thank you so much to the organizers @never.grow.up.graff.jam, the artists, our fellow sponsors, and everyone else who showed up!

Anyone who says Vancouver doesn’t have culture is BLIND! See you next year!

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“GRAFFITI HURTS!!! - a group art exhibition” is now OPEN DAILY from 11am - 5pm through June 28th.

Thank you so much to everyone who came to the opening and made it such a positive and awesome evening.

A very special thank you to @heyyallicedtea for providing beverages! Perfect for summer, go buy some!! ❄️🍋☀️

Don’t miss your last chance to see many of these works in public by artsists including Virus, Crums, Keep 6, Sigil, Phere, Daver, Poncho, Oaph, Samo, ToeTag, Dyse, Are, Ibis & Cameo.

And thanks so much @bastiongrey for the amazing install and to everyone else behind the scenes for helping bring it together. 🙏🙏

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THIS FRIDAY, June 19th, Fingerprint Gallery is thrilled to present "Graffiti Hurts! : a group art exhibition."

The show was born from a poster made by an anonymous elementary school artist. Their work proclaimed "Graffiti Hurts!!!!" - and was itself plastered onto an electrical box among others, ironically becoming the very thing it protested, and looking pretty badass doing it!

"Graffiti Hurts" is a commentary on every company and person who's benefited or profited from stealing graffiti … calling the work destructive and hurtful when it's inconvenient, and "public art" the second someone wants to use it without paying for it.

So, in a fitting twist, we borrowed this poster ourselves - repurposing an anonymous kid's anti-graffiti poster as the flyer for a graffiti show about this exact kind of appropriation… justified the way it always is: it was public, so it was "fair game."

The difference is intent. This show exists to support the incredible artists and celebrate the local West Coast graffiti community.

The reality is graffiti CAN hurt - that's part of its nature. But graffiti, and many of the artists behind it, are pioneers of visual language that echoes across the entire art world, builders of communities without borders, keepers of their own rules of etiquette and respect, and creators of masterful works that shape our daily lives.

"Graffiti Hurts" will feature original works from: Virus, Samo, Jnasty, Are, Daver, Crums, Phere, Sigil, Dyse, Ibis, Keep 6, Oaph, Toetag, Trackside Report, Poncho, Cameo

The show opens Friday, June 19th, 6pm–9pm, then runs daily 11am–5pm from June 20th–28th.

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Very silly no hands rest to some fun slopers to the end. Shout out to @jtops98 for the video and projecting together. #bouldering #genxclimber #progressionbouldering

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Incredible opening evening for Chelsea MacKay’s solo exhibition “Borrowed Intimacy - a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries” at Fingerprint Gallery this past weekend!

The show is open daily from 11am-5pm through Sunday May 24th.

It will be viewable by appointment after that. Thanks so much to all who came and made it such a special evening!!

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that groundhog is a liar

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SHOP NOW - Dollhouse Delusions, a solo art exhibition by @tillie.midnight is now on sale at the link in our bio or at Fingerprint Gallery.ca!

About the show:

By deploying wildly creative uses of mixed media, Dollhouse Delusions explored the blurred lines between consciousness and subconsciousness through the adventures of an animated girl that has a harbinger of intrusive thoughts growing out of her head in the form of a flower.

In this all-encompassing show, Tillie invited us into her world to see for ourselves.

Dollhouse Delusions was open Oct 18-26 at Fingerprint Gallery in Vancouver BC.

🎥: Video by @jovybergen
🎵: Sound by @kidinpjs
🎨: Art and Model @tillie.midnight
🪲🥊: Curated by @jtops98

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Where Hope Meets Action 🌍✨

Join us for an inspiring night of storytelling and conversation with Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada 🌿

🎬 Featuring two BCEFF 2025 finalist films:
Hope in the Anthropocene & Journey Back to Alcedo, stories of courage, science, and hope for our planet.

📅 Nov 9, 2025 | 4–6 PM
📍 Star Cinema, Sidney BC
🎤 Live Q&A with the filmmakers & Elizabeth May

Co-hosted by BCEFF & The Green Party of Canada
🎟️ Limited seats , get your tickets now at bceff.org or the link in bio.

#ElizabethMay #BCEFF2025 #GreenPartyCanada #EnvironmentalFilm #ClimateHope #SidneyBC #FilmForChange #HopeInTheAnthropocene #JourneyBackToAlcedo

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big dumper; where’s me jumper

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