Mika Abele is a ceramicist and illustrator based in Vancouver, on the stolen land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Mika graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2022, and has since exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across the lower mainland. She works passionately to develop glazes and teach skill building classes at her local community pottery studio

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     Mika is part of The Saltwater Writers Collective, and in 2025, co-founded Brushing Hands Collective - an artist group committed to fostering collaboration between visual and literary disciplines through exhibitions and events.

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     Through ceramic vessels, colourful and loose illustrations, or short stories, Mika’s work is a chronicle of connection with the natural world through the lens of magical realism. Using a picture-book illustrative style, her work draws upon my experiences with grief, friendship, queer love and girlhood to create fantastical worlds, contained into ceramic objects.