Wayne Ngan Studio
Under the care of his daughters Goya and Gailan Ngan, Wayne Ngan’s estate and studio carries on his legacy and ensures that his work continues to be exhibited and appreciated both nationally and internationally. His Hornby Island studio will continue to welcome visitors each summer.
Goya Ngan is a photographer based in Vancouver, BC. Her practice centres around plants and gardens and is influenced by her 25 years spent working as a landscape architect. Ngan often approaches her subjects with a macro lens, and the mind of a naturalist. On Hornby Island, she maintains a large garden and co-manages the estate of Wayne Ngan.
Ngan holds a Bachelor’s degree of Landscape Architecture from UBC, and has worked in Vancouver, Munich, Halle, and Saskatoon. Ngan’s photography has been shown at the Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver).
Gailan Ngan
Gailan Ngan works and lives in Vancouver and occasionally works from Hornby Island. Her practice involves pottery, sculpture, and co-managing her late father’s art estate. Ngan collects material from many sources, including those that are commercial and those gathered from nature. Her ceramic sculptures accumulate layers of fused surfaces, creating compositions of texture and colour.
Ngan graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University in 2002. She has shown work at Cooper Cole, The Apartment, San Diego Art Institute, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Kamloops Art Gallery, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2015 she received the North West Ceramic Foundation Award. Her art is represented by Monte Clark Gallery.
Lindsay Inouye, Studio Manager
Lindsay Inouye is the Studio Manager for Wayne Ngan Studio. She administrates the operations of the studio including the cataloguing of works, exhibition loans, transportation, the website and social media, and bookkeeping.
Inouye received a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr in 2006. She is the former Managing Director of Monte Clark Gallery where she worked from 2008 to 2020. She has also worked as a social media strategist, content creator, and knitting pattern designer since 2015.
Mia Wood, On-Site Manager
As the On-Site Manager, Mia Wood maintains Wayne’s studio and showroom and is the primary point of contact for all visitors. She manages the scheduling of open hours, fields sales inquiries, shipping, storage, and handles many aspects related to Wayne’s Hornby Island studio.
Wood grew up on Hornby Island and attended the Liberal Arts College at Concordia. She worked extensively in the art department creating sets for film stage and television, predominantly in Berlin, Hamburg, and Montreal.
Anna Tidlund, Archivist
Since 2018, Anna Tidlund has been working to digitize and organize Wayne Ngan’s vast archive of graphic and textual materials. She has worked in many capacities at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery since 2015, where she is now an archivist. She is also an archivist at the Western Front Society where she has worked since 2019. Tidlund holds a BA (Visual Art & Theory, Anthropology) from UBC, and received her Master of Archival Studies from UBC in 2017.