Artworks

For this design, I have tessellated the shape of traditional Lekwungen canoe paddles to represent a canoe full of people traveling across the Victoria Harbour and Gorge Waterway. For thousands of years, these waters acted like highways for my ancestors and allowed them to travel near and far to engage in ceremonies, trade, and even war. So, this art was created to honor the countless people who paddled across these sacred deep into the past.

Born in Victoria, in 1986

Qwul’thilum (Dylan Thomas) is a Coast Salish artist from the Lyackson First Nation. He has trained in jewelry design with jewelry artist Seletze ( Delmar Johnnie), and apprenticed under renowned Kwakwaka’wakw artist Rande Cook in all mediums of Northwest Coast art.  Dylan has also extensively studied other forms of traditional geometric art, and his work has been deeply influenced by Vajrayana Buddhist mandalas, Celtic knots, Islamic tessellations, and many other ancient geometric art traditions. 
Dylan’s artwork has been published in The Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (Taylor and Francis), and in Contemporary Art on the Northwest Coast by Karen & Ralph Norris. In 2013, Dylan was featured in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s Urban Thunderbirds/Ravens in a Material World art show, and in 2016, Dylan held his first solo exhibit, titled Sacred Geometry, at Alcheringa Gallery in Victoria. He was the Indigenous Artist in Residence at the City of Victoria from 2019 – 2021.

http://www.dylan-thomas.ca/

First Nations

Sandblasted concrete

7/22/2022

Dylan Thomas

on the benches in Songhees Park, which is on the west side of Johnson Street Bridge where the Songhees Walkway leads onto the bridge

Civic Public Art

Victoria > Victoria West