Hi, I’m Mip. There’s a good chance you mostly know me for music, but I make a lot of things — music, art, comics, games, websites… I’ve sewn a pair of pants made from second-hand ties, and I’ve even tried to crochet a granny square… once.

I’ve always had this restless curiosity as a creator. I’m happiest when I’m building and experimenting… like some kind of mad scientist. A song about trying to go camping in the Olympic Mountains (WA) with the only car left in the rental lot — a Grand Marquis. A game prompt about how rutting elk slowed our tour down to 10kph. There’s always something: a song, a drawing, a zine, a game, a community moment.

I grew up in small-town BC, surrounded by forests, dirt roads, and a kind of inherent community that’s hard to explain until you’ve felt it — the kind where everyone knows each other, and making things happen means working together. Somehow, I ended up in Toronto — a place of scenes and sound and endless creative collisions. That tension — between wide-open rural roots and the noisy, messy energy of city life — shows up all over my work. (Knowing how to throw a haybale definitely made packing a 4×10 Fender Bassman combo a little easier.)

I write and perform music — both solo and with my band, Mip Power Trio — this is my heart project, my tumultuous constant. I also play drums, bass, and guitar across a number of other rad Toronto-based projects, including The Supervoids (bass), Second Wife (drums), and Chloe Watkinson (bass).

Alongside music, I create visual art in both traditional and digital mediums. Projects currently in development include an indie comic called Echoes and Entropy and a tabletop RPG game called Band vs World — because of course I would…

My background in history and social science definitely sneaks into my creative work: I’m fascinated by systems, stories, and how people build things together… or fall apart along the way and try to pick themselves back up. If we become close enough friends, there’s a good chance I’ll buy you a copy of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (assuming you haven’t read it already). I probably keep my local sci-fi bookshop in business — they definitely know me as the person who keeps clearing out their stock of that book.

I’m also dreaming up some workshops and pop-up experiences that invite people to make things together — with a few ideas brewing for community storytelling and mutual aid-inspired creativity in the future.

If you’re curious about working together, want to book a workshop, or just want to say hi, head over to my contact page. I’d love to connect….

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