Joanna Chelkowska
Through the practice of drawing, painting and animation, Joanna Chelkowska‘s work expresses issues that are at the frontier of the intimate and the collective: obsession with the body, loss of reference points, withdrawal into oneself. The notion of surface and container is at the heart of her intent. Her work, deeply rooted in the material, develops in contact with the materials and tools present in the studio. Her working allies are paper, charcoal, pigments, and erasers. She uses a simple formal vocabulary and simple gestures, but in the repetition and accumulation of the motif there are many symbolic layers that give it an emotional charge.
Joanna Chelkowska has a Bachelor’s degree in Drawing/Painting from Concordia University and a graduate degree in Current Artistic Practices from the Université de Sherbrooke. She was a recipient of the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ) grant in 2012, 2015 and 2019. She lives and works in Sherbrooke.