Roksan Kohen Parfitt is an immigrant settler and visual artist from İstanbul, Türkiye, who has called the land now known as Galiano Island her home since 2012. As the founder, manager, and program coordinator of the Yellowhouse Art Centre Society, she has been a steadfast advocate for community, arts & culture. Her multidisciplinary art practice spans drawing, painting, collaborative art-making, and community facilitation. In her current work, Roksan creates live, improvised drawings in dialogue with sound and movement, delving into the fluid and dynamic relationship between time, expression, and the unfolding creative process.
We're grateful to collaborate and produce on the shared, stolen, unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of Penelakut, Lamalcha, Hwitslum and other Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples, as well as the ceded territories of Tsawwassen First Nation, on what is now known as Galiano Island, British Columbia. We recognize the complex impacts that hosting settlers and non-settlers has on the Indigenous land and peoples of this area, and we aim to be responsible and accountable for these impacts and our footprint—whether cultural, environmental or social.
We acknowledge the generous support of our partners and funders:
