Temporary Frames

Raj Gill // Vancouver //

Raj is committed to and passionate about human interaction and creative community-building through theatrical interventions and play. He is driven to ease individual suffering by sharing the underlying primordial delight that surrounds our interwoven existence. His background in sound art and telematic happenings over long distance networks, physical theatre, movement/dance, clown, and design, have led to numerous multidisciplinary performances in various traditional and nontraditional settings.

Raj is the founder of the Wheel of Time Gallery and the Temporary Frames Project. As Artistic Director, he is fascinated by experimental community building through chance encounters.  He is a co-founder of Vancouver’s multidisciplinary performance collective: The Co.nstrained Crea.tions Collec.Tive; gathering interested artists from different disciplines into the exploration of constrained improvisations. He also co-founded the Grandma’s Palace art collective; hosting music, shows, shadow puppetry jams, clowns jams, and live-streaming events. Raj helps run a monthly variety show at the critically-acclaimed Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret.

Raj holds a Degree in Communication and Culture with a minor in German from the University of Calgary. He worked under the Canada research chair of telemedia arts, Dr. Kenneth Fields at the Syneme Lab in the University of Calgary. Raj has completed physical theatre training at the London School of Performing arts and has extensive training with the legendary movement/clown teacher David MacMurray Smith. He has also studied under world renowned teachers, Mary Overlie, Thomas Prattki, Nathaniel Justiniano, and Deanna Fletcher. Raj’s works have been presented and supported by United Nations New York, Happening Festival, Musicacoustica Festival Beijing, Victoria Fringe Festival and Glenbow Museum, Richmond Art Gallery.

Lee Gerlach was born in Estevan Saskatchewan, and is a self taught visual artist based in Vancouver Canada. He works primarily in photography, and palladium/platinum/alt-process darkroom printmaking for fine art landscape and fashion. His professional work includes theater lighting, photography, cinematography, and cinema post-production. Lee graduated in 2011 from Vancouver Film School, has experience with the non-profit Ocean Conservancy, and is professionally accredited in Fine Art with the Professional Photographers of Canada. His work emphasizes the ethereal qualities of light and shadow in monochrome, exploring the subconscious of ruin, spirit and nature. His work is collected and nationally and world-wide, and has been published internationally. Lee has been photographing since 2008, and he currently serves as a board director for the Eastside Culture Crawl.

http://www.leegerlach.com

Denise Fort // Munich Germany// New Zealand //

July 2017 Denise recently moved from Raglan, New Zealand to Vancouver, Canada where she works out of her studio in East Van.

Denise Fort is an artist, illustrator and designer. She graduated with a degree in Industrial Design at the University of Applied Science in Munich, Germany in 2007. Denise worked in the design industry as a concept drawer, illustrator and graphic designer ( branding ) for several years in Europe and New Zealand. In New Zealand, Denise started to work as an artist in 2009. Her style changed completely from European architectural inspired drawings to more bold fantasy black line nature-inspired art. It was then when she created the story of the helicopter which thematises migration told in a naive abstract way. With her style, she got commissioned for several mural work in New Zealand throughout the country. Well travelled, she left her mark in Asia and Europe and exhibited in several countries around the world. 2014 she opened her studio and gallery in the coastal town Raglan, New Zealand. Getting itchy feed after 3 years running her own Gallery, seeking novelty and for most following her long-dreamed dream she packed up once again and arrived in Vancouver in July 2017. Denise started painting again and a new style is evolving.

A little note, Denise fractured her drawing hand in May 2017, she was able to start working as an artist again in October 2017, the pain stuck around until December and halejulia ( !!! ) ( knock 3 times on wood ) the hand is pain-free and like before since January 2018! It was a shock and changed a few thinking patterns …