FF2025 – Art Installations

Art Box Collective

The Art Box Collective is happy to provide open and intentional spaces to honour the Past and rejoice in the giving and receiving of Presents.

We are a group of Future Forests Friends who come together every year to help enhance and grow the spaces we all enjoy together – thank you for participating with us!

bizZzart

We are bizZzart!
With a homebase in Canning , Nova Scotia , bizZzart are a group of friends and artists from across the Maritimes. Show casing their unique blend of skills, they specialize in creating spaces to relax and hang out with friends while being surrounded by handmade UV art . A place to have a meal , dance, paint or meet up with friends , the bizZzartPrism Lounge at Future Forest has been a beautiful ongoing project. Here at bizZzart head quarters we can not wait to show you what we have in store for 2025!

Brett.Creational Art

Nova Scotian installations artist, Brett.creational calls Future Forests NEST stage her happy place. Coming year after year to create art intended to make you stop and wonder, how?

Candice Leger’s Art

Candice Leger is a professional artist whose vibrant acrylic paintings celebrate the healing power of art and the beauty of nature. Working on canvas as well as MDF and masonite panels, she often incorporates backlighting to add an innovative and luminous dimension to her pieces.

Her journey with painting began as a personal therapy during a challenging period of depression, and over the past decade, it has blossomed into a passionate career. For the past six years, Candice has dedicated herself fully to her craft, creating works that brings joy and positivity to those who encounter them.

Deeply inspired by the natural world, her use of bold and happy colors reflects her mission to uplift and connect with viewers. Her art has been showcased in gallery exhibitions and can be found in private and commercial collections across North America.

Christopher Turner

Kenzie Turner is a digital technical artist, making environments and esoteric art for over 15 years! With a love for colour and detail, he’s thrilled to reveal his new musically-reactive creations to Future Forest this year!

Greg Puncher

Greg Puncher is a multidisciplinary artist blending visual art, theatre and architecture. He has built art installations at Future Forest in 2023 and 2024 and collaborated with the Magpie Collective on a large installation at Nocturne 2024. Greg also builds set pieces and stages for Atlantic Boylesque and Twisted Night Entertainment. He enjoys blending technology with natural elements to create pieces that reflect hope for a brighter more sustainable future.

Magical Macabre

Kate is a visual artist and bone collector based out of Wolfville NS they create magical macabre mobiles that sway amongst the trees in whimsical places.

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror is on a mission to disco-fy the world – One shimmering sphere at a time. With a dazzling collection of disco balls in all shapes and sizes, we create immersive installations that transform any space into a kaleidoscope of light, movement and pure magic. Whether its day or night, when the light hits just right, the magic begins!

Mystery Playground

The mystery playground is a sensory experience at the festival that gives people an opportunity to relax and explore their inner child.

Red Leaf Art & Jessica Dreadful

Nicholas Walsh (Red Leaf Art) is a contemporary illustrator who loves exploring the magic hidden in the forests of New Brunswick. His work dives deep into the mystical, spiritual, and cultural myths of the natural world around us. His goal as an artist is to rekindle the imagination of today’s society by weaving strange stories into his surreal art pieces that remind us of our role in mother natures cosmic wheel.

Sean Bourque

Sean Joseph Edmond Bourque (signed SJEB) is an artist and educator living in southern New Brunswick, Canada. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mount Allison University (2019), attended the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art (2019), and has since continued to study regularly with several affiliates of the Fantastic Realism and global Visionary Art movements. He is presently enrolled at Université de Moncton earning his Bachelor of Education degree.
Since his formal studies, he has taught numerous students through a variety of workshops and seminars. It has been extremely rewarding for him to share his passion and to teach methods of creating art that have contributed to a sense of well-being in the lives of others, fostering the benefits of life-long creativity for people of all ages in his community. He is now employed as a youth visual arts teacher in New Brunswick’s francophone school district.

The Place

The Place is an East Coast-based travelling, collaborative, creative space popping up at different festivals and events around the Maritimes. Visitors are encouraged to experiment with the wide variety of art supplies provided to explore new mediums and express themselves without pressure or judgment, or simply come in to decompress, enjoy the ambience, and make new connections. The Place is operated by a small collective with backgrounds in human-centred healing who believe in art as a therapeutic, educational, and empowering practice. Our goal is to create a safe, accessible, inclusive, and inspiring place where both community spirit and individual authenticity are nurtured and deepened.