miel creasey

Miel Creasey is an artist from the qathet region on the Sunshine Coast.  Her practice explores how stories, memories, and the natural world are interwoven.  Blending painting and photography, she captures the feelings of place, time, and our shared connections with the landscape.  The history of land and the traces humans leave within their environments are recurring themes throughout her work.  By balancing social critique with visual remembrance, she evokes surreal, dreamlike and ephemeral imagery that reflects on the passage of time and the impermanence of place.


Much of Creasey’s practice has been shaped by childhood summers spent exploring Desolation Sound by sailboat. Old homesteads, abandoned sites, objects and plant species offered clues to the past.  Her paintings are layered compositions built from images of places, plants, and objects that have been photographed or sourced from her experiences, often abstracted.  Through photography, she captures moments in time, preserving objects and their memories.  By manipulating images, repetition, transparency, surface sheen, colour, scale, and placement, she blurs the boundary between imagination and reality.  Layers of paint are built up and washed away, mirroring the fluid relationship between memory and actuality.


The works reflect the ever-changing landscape and the people who intertwine with it.  Each one leaving traces of themselves behind as time continues.



Miel Creasey has lived in and spent time across various coastal communities throughout British Columbia.  She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University in 2012, her work is held in private collections across Canada and the United States.  Creasey has since returned home to qathet where she lives in the community of Tishosem with her husband and two children.  Her work reflects her ongoing exploration of resilience, renewal, and the stirring beauty found between moments in time.