have you eaten? | Hamilton Artists Inc.

A collection of ceramic works by Solange Roy. They show teacups, teapots, a sugar and creamer all decorated with blue and white icing. The teapot has a blue cherry on top. There are also two pieces of ceramic cake in shades of vanilla.

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Familiar Love is a triptych illustration project based on the theme of care and love surrounding food and culture. This project is a set of three digital prints in matching 8x10 frames to emulate a three panel comic using a digital brush that emulates a graphite pencil in order to give the feel of a traditional textured drawing in a digital illustration. Familiar Love depicts the hands of a grandma, mom and the artist, three generations cutting a mango in their own personal ways.

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There Was and How Much There Was by Natasha Tobias Cliche. The work is Pistachio shells naturally dyed with onion skins and iron, waxed linen.

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Jayden Charles, Snack Witch AKA Joni Cheung, Natasha Tobias Cliche and Solange Roy

Sep 4 - Nov 7, 2026 / James Gallery

Artists Jayden Charles, Snack Witch AKA Joni Cheung, Natasha Tobias Cliche and Solange Roy collectively probe the question: have you eaten? This exhibition looks at the intersection of food and care across diasporas, suggesting that food nourishes more than just the body. Charles draws on the unique ways each of their family members cut a mango. Cut fruit becomes an offering of love when words won’t suffice. With their video work Cheung challenges the idea that food is neutral, poking holes in the notion of authenticity by unpacking distinct Chinese-Canadian dishes. Roy’s ceramics demonstrate that food can be both a site of joy and conflict, especially for women amidst the sharp realities of diet culture and fatphobia. Cliche’s textile work speaks to the cultural significance of food, particularly pistachios. Together, these four artists ask: What can we accomplish by engaging in the simple life affirming act of eating? Have you eaten?

Jayden Charles is a nonbinary Trinidadian-Canadian illustrator and sequential artist based in their hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. They received their BFA in Film Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University. Their work focuses on storytelling and is inspired by their own lived experiences, relationships, and their ever-growing collection of graphic novels and zines. Their goal with their work is to express their feelings and be a representation of queer black artists in a space that typically excludes their voices.

Natasha Tobias Cliche (she/her, b. 2000) is a visual artist and knitwear designer of
Lebanese and French-settler descent based in Wolastoq (Fredericton, NB.) Using exclusively natural materials, her practice applies methods such as natural dyeing, machine knitting, printmaking and stitching to the creation of wearable garments and installation artworks. Her recent work takes interest in the cultural significance of food and the defamiliarization of everyday life.

🔮 Snack Witch Joni Cheung 🍡 is a grateful, uninvited guest born—and knows she wants to die—on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Stó:lō, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh peoples. She is a Certified Sculpture Witch with an MFA from Concordia University (2023) and holds a BFA with Distinction in Visual Art (2018) from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. As a wicked #magicalgirl ✨ who eats art and makes snacks, she has exhibited across Turtle Island and beyond. They love teaching as a sessional professor, albeit under precarious working conditions. Their practice is indebted to the friends, co-conspirators, and peers they've met on the stolen lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Mi’kmaq peoples at Concordia and NSCAD University. Aside from art-making, Joni likes wandering down grocery store aisles and drinking bubble tea. 🧋NOTE: Don’t feed this Mogwai after midnight. 👹

Solange Roy is a queer, francophone, Indigenous ceramic artist living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her studio practice focuses on sculptural, hand-built ceramics, producing intricate and colourful dessert-inspired works. Roy obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the University of Manitoba in 2022. She won the People's Choice award at the BFA Honours exhibition with her installation titled Table for One. The centrepiece of this installation, a 3-tiered cake sculpture titled You Want a Piece of Me?, won the provincial prize for the BMO 1st Art! National Competition and was featured in an exhibition at the University of Toronto. In 2025, Roy completed a five-month artist residency at the Medalta International Artists in Residence Program in Medicine Hat, Alberta. During this residency, she produced new work for her first solo exhibition, Rester sur sa Faim, which opened in March 2025 at the CCFM in Winnipeg.