Sandeep Johal, I am easy to find, 2024

Sandeep Johal is a Canadian visual artist whose practice engages drawing, collage, textiles, and large-scale murals. Through her Indo-folk feminine aesthetic, she confronts themes of bleakness, despair and ugliness with their dissonant opposites: brightness, hope and beauty. Ultimately Johal vividly shares stories of resistance and resilience.  

Johal has worked on notable site-specific commissions across Canada.  Johal’s clients include Apple, the Vancouver Canucks, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Holt Renfrew, Lululemon, Earls Restaurant Group, as well as the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Art Gallery.  

Johal holds a Diploma in Fine Arts (honours) from Langara College and a BEd from the University of British Columbia. She lives and works in Vancouver, BC. 

About this Edition

"I am easy to find" is a 13-layer screen-printed edition on archival cotton rag paper. Screen printing is a stencil-based process that involves creating multiples of an image by building it up in layers, with each color in the design printed individually. The image begins as a full-color design created by Sandeep Johal, which is then broken down by our studio into individual color components. Each color component is transferred onto photographic film, which is used to expose light-sensitive fine mesh screens. This creates mesh stencils where ink either passes through onto the paper in the image area or is blocked in the non-image area. Each color is prepared and printed this way, with its own screen, carefully aligned and printed by hand. The result is a multi-layered edition where each color is applied in sequence. In this process, there is no single 'original' artwork. Instead, each print is created from the same set of screens, with every layer carefully printed by hand to ensure consistency across the edition.

Printed by Val Loewen, Collaborative Printmaker at Malaspina Printmakers

Photo credit: Rachel Topham Photography