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Chantal Gagnon is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist whose practice functions as an atmospheric mirror to the environments and ancestral lineages she inhabits. Gagnon’s work is characterised by an acute sensitivity to the frequencies of specific locations, a trait further refined by her transition from Canada to the United Kingdom at the age of 18.
Following a formative period of study in Edmonton, San Francisco and London, Gagnon pivoted from the constraints of digital graphic design toward a deeply intuitive, analogue practice. This shift marked the beginning of her adventurous trajectory: a career defined by rigorous experimentation and the mastery of diverse media, including abstract painting, sculpture, crochet, collage, photography and poetry. Gagnon’s career is marked by a refusal to be defined by a single medium, instead allowing the unexpected turns of the creative process to dictate the form. Her work has frequently engaged with social and structural themes, notably through collaborative protest art and experimental stop-motion animation. Today, her practice is an investigation into the instinctual transmission of memory and pattern, resulting in a body of work that is as structurally complex as it is emotionally resonant.
An Artist is an Artist before they have ever produced a single thing.