As a painter, Dionne Simpson is of Jamaican descent, was raised in Toronto, and studied at Cooper Union in New York and OCADU in Toronto. In 2004, she became the first national winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

Simpson creates voids in large canvases by pulling threads from them to create voids within them as a result of her family history and textile practices. The canvas is further destroyed and embellished by adding various paint pigments and found pigments, such as White Out and hair dye, into the spaces left behind.

In addition to architectural depictions, Simpson has also created portraits and abstract images, such as the work presented here. In her words, the canvas represents the underlying fabric of Canadian society, where she embeds fragments of our culture into the window frames.