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BDes Emily Carr University.
MFA Simon Fraser University School of Contemporary Arts ୭˚. ᵎᵎ｡🧷𖦹°‧ other account @jellidude

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1️⃣Opening night of “Borrowed Intimacy” by @cm.studio_art at @fingerprint_gallery
2️⃣rents in the Caddy
3️⃣sky base party
4️⃣/5️⃣ @kpcool7 bday Gun Lake
6️⃣7️⃣8️⃣9️⃣ Hornby!
1️⃣0️⃣ - Canadas first ever men’s World Cup win

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Assorted works from Chelsea MacKay’s recent solo exhibition “Borrowed Intimacy: a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries” at Fingerprint Gallery. Please DM or email to inquire about purchase.

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Assorted works from Chelsea MacKay's recent solo exhibition "Borrowed Intimacy: a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries" at Fingerprint Gallery. Please DM or email to inquire about purchase.

#1 Tres Canes Soli - 🔴
2026, photo converted to ASCII, framed with leather barbed wire

#2 Dolorum Ipsum Docet 003
2026, acrylic on canvas, 4’ x 3’

#3 May the Bridges I Burn Light the Way - 🔴
2026, human hair woven to painted board with torched frame

#4 Faithless the Reason I Stayed and the Reason I Left
2026, blown-up concert ticket stub, silver bubble wrap, torched and painted frame

#5 Disarm
2026, 17th-century needlepoint, enamel paint, metal zap ties, mini soap bars

#6 You Sound Like Paradise
2026, framed music sheet

#7 You Taste Like Holy Water
2026, chromed mirror with acid-etched text, metal thorns

#8 Dolorum Ipsum Docet 001
2026, acrylic on canvas, 4’ x 3’

#9 Dolorum Ipsum Docet 003
2026, acrylic on canvas, 4’ x 3’

#10 Dolorum Ipsum Docet 004
2026, acrylic on canvas, 5’ x 4’

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Incredible opening evening for Chelsea MacKay’s solo exhibition “Borrowed Intimacy - a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries” at Fingerprint Gallery this past weekend!

The show is open daily from 11am-5pm through Sunday May 24th.

It will be viewable by appointment after that. Thanks so much to all who came and made it such a special evening!!

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Congrats Chels @cm.studio_art on the opening of Borrowed Intimacies--what a compelling window into the agony and ecstacy of being a girl 🦢 🥀 .
Up now at @fingerprint_gallery!

#confessionalart #contemporaryart #girlhood #nostalgia

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OPENING TOMORROW. Fingerprint Gallery is thrilled to announce “Borrowed Intimacy - a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries” by Chelsea MacKay. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday May 16th from 6-9pm!  About the Exhibition:

Borrowed Intimacy: a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries, is a solo exhibition that traces through past relationships, part autobiographical, part confessional. The work is a form of catharsis, moving through love, heartbreak, and damaged friendship. Across a series of paintings, a large sculptural installation, etched mirror, video, and smaller sculptures, the exhibition becomes an emotional archive.  Drawing on strategies reminiscent of Tracey Emin’s candid language and Martin Margiela’s deconstructive approach, the works treat process as both archive and excavation. Frames are scorched or painted white, simultaneously revealing, obscuring, and preserving what lies beneath, from a landscape to a 17th-century needlepoint. Acts of repair recur through materials like cloth, enamel, and metal straps, suggesting both damage and healing, while sewn hair extensions mark the end of a friendship. Hand beading and photo transfers add intimate, tactile layers to a large-scale installation cataloguing past relationships.  
These varied materials, objects, and techniques come together to retell a personal history. Creating a tension between concealment and exposure, damage and preservation, intimacy and distance, proposing love itself as something continually borrowed.

About the artist:

Chelsea MacKay (b. 1980, Hornby Island; lives & works in Vancouver) is an artist of Anishinaabe and Scottish descent. She holds a Bachelor of Design in Industrial Design from Emily Carr University, studied joinery at BCIT, and recently completed an MFA at Simon Fraser University. Her work is in sculptural installation, painting, and video.

Drawing on the aesthetics of the late 1990s and early 2000s alongside surrealism, Classical, Renaissance, Baroque, and religious iconography, her work functions as a vessel for memory and nostalgia, connecting intimate experience to broader cultural narratives through strategies of pastiche and satire.

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OPENING NEXT WEEK! Fingerprint Gallery is thrilled to announce “Borrowed Intimacy - a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries” by Chelsea MacKay. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday May 16th from 6-9pm!  About the Exhibition:

Borrowed Intimacy: a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries, is a solo exhibition that traces through past relationships, part autobiographical, part confessional. The work is a form of catharsis, moving through love, heartbreak, and damaged friendship. Across a series of paintings, a large sculptural installation, etched mirror, video, and smaller sculptures, the exhibition becomes an emotional archive.  Drawing on strategies reminiscent of Tracey Emin’s candid language and Martin Margiela’s deconstructive approach, the works treat process as both archive and excavation. Frames are scorched or painted white, simultaneously revealing, obscuring, and preserving what lies beneath, from a landscape to a 17th-century needlepoint. Acts of repair recur through materials like cloth, enamel, and metal straps, suggesting both damage and healing, while sewn hair extensions mark the end of a friendship. Hand beading and photo transfers add intimate, tactile layers to a large-scale installation cataloguing past relationships.  
These varied materials, objects, and techniques come together to retell a personal history. Creating a tension between concealment and exposure, damage and preservation, intimacy and distance, proposing love itself as something continually borrowed.

About the artist:

Chelsea MacKay (b. 1980, Hornby Island; lives & works in Vancouver) is an artist of Anishinaabe & Scottish descent. She holds a Bachelor of Design in Industrial Design from Emily Carr University, studied joinery at BCIT, and recently completed an MFA at Simon Fraser University. Her work is in sculptural installation, painting, and video.

Drawing on the aesthetics of the late 1990s and early 2000s alongside surrealism, Classical, Renaissance, Baroque, and religious iconography, her work functions as a vessel for memory and nostalgia, connecting intimate experience to broader cultural narratives through strategies of pastiche and satire.

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Fingerprint Gallery is thrilled to announce “Borrowed Intimacy - a retrospective of heartbreak and injuries” by Chelsea MacKay. Join us for the opening reception on May 16th from 6 - 9pm!  

About the Exhibition:

Borrowed Intimacy: A Retrospective of Love and Other Injuries is a solo exhibition that traces through past relationships, part autobiographical, part confessional. The work is a form of catharsis, moving through love, heartbreak, and damaged friendship. Across a series of paintings, a large sculptural installation, etched mirror, video, and smaller sculptures, the exhibition becomes an emotional archive.  

Drawing on strategies reminiscent of Tracey Emin’s candid language and Martin Margiela’s deconstructive approach, the works treat process as both archive and excavation. Frames are scorched or painted white, simultaneously revealing, obscuring, and preserving what lies beneath, from a landscape to a 17th-century needlepoint. Acts of repair recur through materials like cloth, enamel, and metal straps, suggesting both damage and healing, while sewn hair extensions mark the end of a friendship. Hand beading and photo transfers add intimate, tactile layers to a large-scale installation cataloguing past relationships.  

These varied materials, objects, and techniques come together to retell a personal history. Creating a tension between concealment and exposure, damage and preservation, intimacy and distance, proposing love itself as something continually borrowed.

About the artist:

Chelsea MacKay (b. 1980, Hornby Island; lives and works in Vancouver) is an artist of Anishinaabe and Scottish descent. She holds a Bachelor of Design in Industrial Design from Emily Carr University, studied joinery at BCIT, and recently completed an MFA at Simon Fraser University. Her work is in sculptural installation, painting, and video.

Often drawing on the aesthetics of the late 1990s and early 2000s alongside surrealism, Classical, Renaissance, Baroque, and religious iconography, her work functions as a vessel for memory and nostalgia, connecting intimate experience to broader cultural narratives through strategies of pastiche and satire.

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Summers in full swing! On Friday July 18th at 6pm Scoop 60s a solo exhibition by Gurl 23 opens at Fingerprint Gallery. I’ve worked so hard on this show as I think it’s the most important show we’ve done to date. I hope you can make it!

Otherwise trips to Hornby Island 🏝️ Buccaneer Bay 🏴‍☠️ ⛳️ and city beach hangs! I also have amazing friends doing great art at the Audain Gallery and outside of BC place! 🖼️ 🎨 And my dad turned 53! 😎☀️🌻💛

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Kamloops ➡️Vancouver ➡️Toronto➡️Squamish! Past couple weeks have been a blast! So lucky to have such awesome family and friends to visit and go all over Canada with! ❤️🇨🇦

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