Chelsey Thiessen is an artist currently working mainly in textiles, ceramics, and print media. Thiessen explores cross disciplinary approaches to art making, combining various media to engage with ideas of labour, repetition, and material history. Through the integration of spontaneous and meticulous ways of making, she is interested in medium and modes of production as ways of exploring the relationship between that which is handmade and technologically reproduced.
Thiessen holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (honors) from the University of Manitoba and her work has been exhibited locally and nationally. Thiessen was the recipient of the BMO 1st Art Award for Manitoba in 2017 and is currently working in arts administration.
