Artist: Meegan Lim
Category: Temporary Public Art Projects
Address: 340 Vodden St E

This public art initiative is part of the My Neighbourhood Art Project; a series of site-specific, temporary art installations created in collaboration with the local community.

One of the goals of the project is to increase artist opportunities by pairing a local emerging artist with a seasoned lead artist. These artists worked together to capture community feedback; inviting after-school program participants and local recreation staff to map favourite neighbourhood memories through collages and guided drawing and painting activities. Through a series of workshops, the artists gathered a collection of local landmarks, neighbourhood hangouts, and personal memories which were then incorporated into the final illustration. The final illustration was printed as a double-sided vinyl window mural viewable from both the pool area and the exterior playground space.

Over 25 residents, including many youth participants from Gordon Graydon Sr. Public School, contributed their ideas to the Mapping Memories mural!

My Neighbourhood Art Project responds to a council directive for city-wide neighbourhood beautification and speaks to a need for meaningful, neighbourhood-level, placemaking, and community arts engagement.


image of My Neighbourhood Art Project | Mapping Memories, 2023

Meegan Lim is an illustrator and art facilitator based in Brampton, Ontario. She is known for her detailed illustrations focusing on food and cultural identity, and the vast stories that exist within those intersections.

Her mission is to create art that is inviting in its aesthetic, thoughtful in its research, and illuminating with its subject matter. From her detailed gouache illustrations to her personal risograph zines, Meegan’s work provides a colourful and lighthearted entry point to topics that can be hard to digest. She holds a Bachelor of Design in Illustration, specializing in Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation, from OCAD University.

Meegan’s client list includes Globe and Mail, Hazlitt Magazine, Penguin Random House, Chatelaine, Coach House Books, The Daniels Corporation, City of Pickering, Living Hyphen, Broken Pencil Magazine, NAMARA, Bowling Green State University, STEPS Public Art, and the City of Brampton.

Neha Ray is an Indo-Fijian illustrator and wannabe sneakerhead based in Toronto. Passion for fashion would be an understatement when describing her fascination with streetwear and sneaker culture. She is inspired by the Six and other trendy capital of the world and translates that energy and fervor into her work. You can catch her trying to cop the latest sneakers (and failing miserably) while browsing the latest fashion trends.

Neha is also the recipient of the Arts and Design Award in 2019. Some of her clients include Galdem Magazine, Refinery29 Canada, Brookfield Institute + WEKH, and Toronto Metropolitan University.