Justine McGrath is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, ON of mixed Métis and European ancestry. When not creating stained glass art she spends her time working in commercial set decoration, spending time with family or friends, and enriching the life of her small dog Emmylou.

"Although I studied fine arts at OCAD University over a decade ago, I am largely self and family taught in the medium of stained glass. The hanging suncatcher pieces I create are one of a kind, never reproduced, and each embedded with meaning and symbolism that act as a visual marker for events or challenges in my life. In many ways I feel like my relationship to this medium has only just begun. I have always been attracted to the play of light through glass. The seemingly impermeable medium that can transform a room. I have vivid memories from my childhood being dragged along to church begrudgingly, completely zoning out in the pews while studying the large stained glass windows instead of listening to the sermons. As time went on nature became my church, the swaying of a willow tree, the buzzing of bugs, the way wilderness regenerates and thrives. This imagery is prominent and often referenced in my work. If stained glass has traditionally been a vessel for worship, then allow me to use it to worship the land and the lessons in it."

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