The artwork shaping ReFrame’s 2026 visual identity was commissioned from local multidisciplinary artist Nevan Hinks. Created through the cyanotype process, this striking work explores the relationship between humans and the natural world. Reflecting ReFrame’s core values of social and environmental justice, it invites viewers to pause, look closely, and consider their own connections to the living world around them. ReFrame is deeply grateful to Nevan for her powerful contribution.

ReFrame 2026 Artwork: How Can We Share This Place? 

The artwork featured across ReFrame’s 2026 creative materials was commissioned from local multidisciplinary artist Nevan Hinks. 

Hinks works with cyanotype, an environmentally-conscious photographic process, to create haunting, deep-blue prints.  This layered and experimental work suggests an underwater world and features images of fish – found, photographed, and contact-printed by the artist. 

This work responds to the increasing fragility of global ecosystems shaped by human impact.      Considering our connection through water, Hinks reflects on how our actions have transformed sustaining and biodiverse environments into spaces of potential harm. Hinks invites us to look closer, to see beauty, loss, and responsibility intertwined. The work holds us within tensions  between image and object, life and death, thought and action, care and neglect, belonging and displacement.

As with ReFrame itself, the work poses a simple, yet urgent question: How can we share this place?

Nevan Hinks is a white settler, currently living and working in the treaty territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishanaabeg. She is a recent graduate from the University of Guelph with a BAH in Studio Art, and is currently a Trent MA student in Cultural Studies. Her practice exists at the intersection of printmaking and performance art. Hinks explores precarity, ephemerality and the life of objects through her work. Hinks is heavily influenced by her underlying feelings of environmental grief and dread. Notable exhibitions include: Thoughts Thunk, November – January, Zavitz Gallery; Start Quote, End Quote, Lalani Jennings Commercial Gallery; and All the things that used to be ‘here,’ Garden Commercial Gallery. She recently was an artist in residence at A Position on Retreat, in Lake Cowichan, British Columbia.