Angela Aula

Angela Aula is a painter and makeup artist who was born in Iqaluit, NU, and is currently based in Toronto, ON. She was inspired to start painting in 2010 by the artists around her, as well as the auctions for Inuit art. “I’ve tried beading, I’ve tried sewing, I’ve tried carving. But the one thing that really stuck was painting,” she says. She primarily paints landscapes and animals, and is particularly inspired by dancing bear sculptures. 

Aula began doing mural work when she started participating in Red Urban Artist Collective, a group of emerging and established Indigenous artists who aim to reclaim urban spaces for Indigenous people. She has painted murals in parks, office spaces and construction sites all over Toronto. Aula collaborates with other artists to design and paint these murals, and she also designs and paints murals by herself. Many of the murals she paints include black and white details, like the one in Coronation Park in Toronto, which features a black background with a white dancing polar bears, as well as the CN tower.