Chelsea Moore
Chelsea Moore is an emerging artist currently working in Guelph, Ontario. She is currently in her fourth year of undergrad with a major in Studio Art and a minor in Art History. In her work, she explores the intersection of textiles, painting, and storytelling. Rooted in themes of femininity, family heritage, and domesticity, her work often uses secondhand fabrics to reflect layered narratives that honour the history of each material. Influenced by traditional crafts and techniques passed down by the women in her family, Chelsea creates “drawings” with thread, using machine sewing and painting on fabric to depict intimate, contemplative scenes of women in domestic spaces. By combining textiles with conventions of drawing and painting, she challenges traditional distinctions within fine art, using these mediums to create lifelike, scale-accurate objects that blur the line between real and imagined spaces. The depiction of women is central, reflecting the material’s history as well as the role of textiles in contemporary spaces. Her work reclaims textiles as a meaningful space for connection and expression, presenting each piece as a connection between the past and present to highlight individual and shared experiences. She has exhibited her work with Guelph Arts Council and Necessary Arts Collective and continues to explore the storytelling potential of textiles in her evolving practice.
