Adapt
Chelsea Brant
December 15 to January 15, 2023
Window Gallery

Adapt, is a selection of works from Brant’s MFA Thesis Exhibition titled, REcollection which consists of a series of paintings that internally disclose sentiments of loss and growth as the artist navigated unfamiliar environments over a period of two years. This selection of works is curated to emphasize the adaptation and adjustment period that is often connected to relocation and belonging. Through metaphorical representations of personal relationships, health and wellbeing, preservation, and memory, Brant uses light, shadow, and tropical house plants to represent the ‘self’ through this navigational period. Through an artistic practice that is heavily reliant on subconscious processing of experience through the medium of paint, these works inform the idea of “making home.”

Chelsea Brant (she/her) is an Emerging Multidisciplinary Artist and Independent Curator and a recent MFA graduate from the University of Saskatchewan. Chelsea completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph and has since worked for several arts organizations within administrative roles, curatorial assistantships as well as programming coordination positions. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally with her most recent MFA Thesis Exhibition presented at The Gallery at Art Placement in Saskatoon, SK.