Aviv Dekel

Aviv is an ‘Outsider’ Folk Artist; creating in fibre, acrylic and multi media for 10+ years. Check out her Artsea Virtual Tour! “I love to make my own designs with bright colours, I want to make pictures that will help people to feel happy, I want to use my art to help the world to be kind and to save our home the earth, we can stop bullying and fighting and work together to have peace!”

Aviv is 24 and lives in Brentwood Bay. She has Down syndrome, type one diabetes and a bone disease that required her right wrist to be fused.

Three images of Aviv’s work were purchased by the city of Victoria for giant posters on bus shelters downtown for 2019. She has been in many local gallery shows, and solo shows at the Spiral Café and Archive gallery. Her next solo show is at Xchanges Gallery in June 2022.28 pieces of Aviv’s artwork were purchased by Warner Bros. for use in the series MAID and also will be used in a Disney movie ‘Under Heaven’s Banner’.