Lacey Jane &

Layla Folkmann

        Contemporary female mural artists Lacey Jane and Layla Folkmann have a professional collaboration in large-scale public art for over a decade. They met studying Fine Art in Edmonton, Alberta at Grant MacEwan University in 2007, where their mutual passion and dedication to artistic practice forged an inseparable friendship. Both Lacey and Layla graduated with Great Distinction from the Concordia University Fine Art program in Montreal in 2016, while completing their final semester abroad in France at the L’École d’Enseignement Supérieur d’Art de Bordeaux. Working exclusively as a synchronized duo, they have produced 100 murals all across the globe, from an over 4,000 square foot farm silo in the Ontario countryside to the notable Rogers Place hockey arena in downtown Edmonton. Internationally, they have painted in Honduras, France, and Northern Uganda where they volunteered with an orphanage and an art center for the reintegration of former child soldiers. Most recently in 2019, their endeavours took them to Hellissandur, Iceland where they were invited for a residency to headline the Hellissandur Street Art Festival. Specializing in the use of traditional applications of brush and acrylic paint, Lacey and Layla are most notable for their emboldened colour and captivating realism of relevant and contemporary subject matter. Lacey Jane currently lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she completing her Master in Fine arts at Emily Carr University, and Layla is operating her artistic practice out of Edmonton, AB. They continue to dedicated to their collaborative efforts in meaningful and engaging public art.