Rachelle Sawatsky is an artist and writer whose paintings, drawings, ceramics, and writing explore internal narratives and sensory perception. Recent works by Sawatsky draw on childlike subjects and ideas—animal characters rendered in vivid colour, the imagined interiors of lumpy bodies, and joyful, scribbled weathers, conjuring alternating currents of dream, memory, and other visionary experience. The drawings are presented as a poem, to be read through their titles, and punctuated with ceramic asterisks, which have been screen-printed and painted with watercolour washes. Combining allegory and intuition, the works are at once abstract and familiar, formal, and spontaneous.
Last updated: January 9, 2025
