Leya Tess is an interdisciplinary artist who swims out

between the islands of Art/Science and East/West.

She uses mark making and intervention to highlight imagined ecological structures.

Her hyphenated (Hong Kong Chinese-Swedish-British) experience

has been shaped by the wind and water of the North Eastern Pacific West Coast. 

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She has a BFA in Visual Art from the University of Victoria and

an incomplete BSC in Biological Sciences from Thompson Rivers University.

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She lives on an island in the Salish Sea and enjoys long walks on the beach

with her tripod husky, Sunny. 

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Select performances include: 

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• Millennial Molly (West Coast League of Lady Wrestlers @ Edelweiss)

• Quagga Mussels (LOLW Island Rumble @ Artscape Gibraltar Point)

• Portrait Photographer (Prince George Walmart)

• Sea Kayak Expedition Guide / Naturalist

• Water Quality Microbiology Analyst

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