[1] She is an artist who grew up in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Her early works were autobiographical, focussing on the tension between Indigenous and European culture in Vancouver.
An early motif utilized in her work was referencing Mimbres bowl forms and surface decoration,[3] which is a design language she has referenced back to frequently in her work from renditions of historical Mimbres pots,[4] to public art installation like the one done for the Olivia Skye Public Housing Building[5] which featured illustrations of women in the style of Mimbres surface decoration.
Her series "If This is What You Call, ‘Being Civilized’, I'd rather go back to Being a ‘Savage’" is an evolution of the Mimbres pots, keeping the same bowl form but adding more personalized surface decoration from the artist.
She continued on to finish her master's degree in Fine Arts in Ceramics at the University of Regina (2003).