ABOUT
Adelle Rawluk is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Combining oil painting, textiles, and sculpture with locally found and shared objects, her work explores ideas of memory, longing, and mourning. Blending a tangible and physical reality with the distortions of the uncanny, remembrance and the placement of personal meaning are explored in dream-like compositions. Her work challenges the boundaries between the two-dimensional image and the sculptural, enshrining the told and untold stories of places, people, and things.
Adelle holds a BFA (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba. Her work has been exhibited in various institutions within Canada, including Graffiti Gallery, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), and C2 Centre for Craft. Adelle’s work can be found in numerous private collections across Canada and the United States.
Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist living and working on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. My work combines painting, textiles, and sculpture with found and shared objects and materials in pursuit of an understanding of memory, longing, and mourning. Blending a tangible and physical reality with the distortions of the uncanny, remembrance and the placement of personal meaning are explored in dream-like compositions.
Within the fluidity of time and the unreliability of recollection, memory and meaning become a coalescence of moments, objects, and stories. The preservation of meaning is marked by the transference of devotion towards the mundane and ordinary. Objects and things become markers and icons of the stories that compile the framework of personal being. Materials as symbols of the people, places, and things that are or once were.
In the ambiguity of recollection, thoughts, feelings, and the remnants of the individual become scattered. Through an amalgamation of materials, compositions are rendered and created as if from dreams, creating simultaneous feelings of discomfort and familiarity in the unity of the known and unknown. In the preservation of self and the placement of meaning, belongings, places, and things become items and symbols of honour. In what is loved and what is forgotten, a sense of the sacred is found in the secular.
