About

Ang McCabe

BScN, Artist, Photographer

Credentials:
Almost went to art school
Student of the Year, Grade 7
Self-taught tattoo artist (kitchen table era)
100% on Grade 12 human sexuality final
Drawing dicks since 1999
Ex–labour and delivery registered nurse
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, 2011

While the above is, in fact, all true… there is a little more to her than that.

Ang McCabe is a Calgary-based artist and photographer whose work is rooted in connection, curiosity, and a refusal to take life too seriously.

She was originally awarded a scholarship to attend art school, but her path detoured into nursing (to get a “real job” instead of becoming a starving artist). She went on to work as a labour and delivery nurse before eventually leaving healthcare to build a multi–seven-figure photography business (turns out… not so starving after all).

Known for her emotive, storytelling-driven imagery and her ability to teach others how to create with intention, Ang has spent years helping photographers find both their voice and their confidence.

Now, she finds herself returning to her first instinct: creating for the sake of creating.

Her current work explores perception, humour, and the quiet tension between what we see and what we assume. Across mediums [from drawing to printmaking to sculptural forms] she is drawn to pieces that invite both connection and curiosity, often layered with subtle irreverence.

At the core of it all is a simple belief:

Not everything meaningful has to be serious…
and not everything serious is as meaningful as we think.