Fausta is a contemporary emerging artist who uses a variety of photographic techniques, including traditional film-based and modern digital processes. She creates images with an underlying and haunting beauty that engages the viewer. Her works have been exhibited in Mississauga, Brampton, Toronto and Kariya (Japan).

Her works are part of the Art Gallery of Peel Permanent Art Collection, Sheridan College Collection, and various private collections which include works sold at the annual AGM auction. In 2006, her work was exhibited in a two person show as part of the Peel Artists Series, a prestigious exhibition recognizing important emerging talent in the community.

Fausta has been the recipient of various awards including, the 31st annual Juried Arts Award - AGP, D.L. Stevenson and Sons Artists Award, Toronto Image Works Award, and twice the Talens Bursary Award.  Most recently, she was nominated and chosen as a finalist for the Mississauga Arts Council Award.

The ongoing theme in Fausta’s work explores loss, transformation, restoration and change; she is inspired by nature, children, kitch, knick knacks, thrift shops, television reruns and old forgotten things. Through her images the feeling of ‘momento mori’ is present – this is an old Latin phrase which translates into ‘remember that you are mortal’. These images are meant to emphasize our temporal existence on earth and invite or remind the viewer to focus on their spiritual side. David Somers (curator, Art Gallery of Peel) describes Fausta’s work as having a “sense of uneasiness … something off-putting, and they pull the viewer into an uncomfortable, but challenging, dialogue with the work.”¹