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.
Exhibitions
2025 Craft in Miniature, Shirley Richardson Craft Gallery, C2 Centre for Craft, Winnipeg
2023 Freshair Art Initiative, Freshair Boutique, Winnipeg
2023 Craft in Colour, Shirley Richardson Craft Gallery, C2 Centre for Craft, Winnipeg
2017 BMO 1st Art Competition, Justina M. Barnacle Gallery, Toronto
2017 Printober: College Print Exchange, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, USA
2017 Crafting the Future, OCAD, Toronto
2017 Fresh Paint/New Construction, Art Mur, Montreal
2017 BFA Graduating Exhibition, School of Art, Winnipeg
2016 Exchange of Threads, The Edge Gallery, Winnipeg
2016 School of Art/Martha Street Studio Print Exchange, Martha Street Studio Gallery, Winnipeg
2016 School of Art/Martha Street Studio Print Exchange, GOSA, Winnipeg
2016 University of Manitoba Annual Ceramics Show, The Edge Gallery, Winnipeg
2016 Exchange of Threads, GOSA, Winnipeg
2015 Redart, GOSA, Winnipeg
2015 University of Manitoba Annual Ceramics Show, The Edge Gallery, Winnipeg
2015 Show + Create, The Edge Gallery, Winnipeg
2015 1000 Miles Apart Ceramics Conference Student and Faculty Exhibition, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
2014 Show + Create, The Edge Gallery, Winnipeg
Grants and Awards
2017 BMO 1st Art- Manitoba Winner
2017 Martha Street Studio Student Scholarship
2016 Nuit Blanche Winnipeg Emerging Voices Grant (as a member of the artist collective Exchange of Threads)