Sapphira Charles
she/they
Sapphira is an entrepreneur architect, designer, artist & performer with a rebellious multi-disciplinary creative practice. Her practice is informed by her background in visual arts, dance and (burlesque) performance art. Prior to venturing on her own, she worked for over 15 years at a variety of award-winning architectural studios across Toronto. She currently works in a range of multiple scales and varieties from creating architecture art to designing architecture & interiors to art direction which include costume designing and fashion styling for music videos or creative photoshoots and designs for branding & visual identity. Her latest explorations are in creating multi-dimensional virtual spatial realms that explore the intersection of human expression in architecture through various 3D technologies.
She is an activist and community organizer in the Beaches where she is a resident and created the movement – Beachers for Black Lives in 2020. She held creative events and initiatives from boardwalk protest walks, community art & dance rallies to public flower art memorial installations and helped to curate a BIPOC Women-led public mural art installation at the historic Leuty Boathouse. She has also spoken at public panel talks on nurturing anti-racist communities led by local politicians. With her activist and utopian free spirit, she dreams of helping the world to become a more expressive, imaginative, creative, colourful and socially just space. Freedom of Expression and Liberation are her core pursuits and passions within all her creative endeavours.