CHANTAL GAGNON

the artist

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I don't manufacture art; I cultivate it.

I provide the environment, the silence, and the technical skill, and then I wait for the truth of the work to emerge on its own terms.

Bio

Chantal Gagnon (b. 1991, Canada) is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist whose practice functions as a sophisticated, 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 North America to the United Kingdom at the age of 18.

Following a formative period of study in Canada, 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, sculptural, crochet, collage, 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.

Artist Statement

Chantal’s practice is an inquiry into the "Surprise" of existence, the moment where chaotic experimentation resolves into a resonant truth. Operating as a Reflector, she utilises her lack of fixed internal definition as a creative strength, allowing her work to become a site-specific dialogue with the cities and spaces Chantal traverses and the ancestral memories she inherit.

Central to Chantal’s methodology is a commitment to the analogue sanctuary. By strictly excluding digital technology from her studio, Chantal ensures that her work is a direct transmission of the physical and psychic environment. Her process is guided by the Strategy of Revelation: clarity through observation.

Chantal does not impose a predetermined outcome on the canvas or the fibre. Instead, she allows transmission, intuition and transmutation to dictate the resolution of each piece. Chantal’s work is less about control and more about communion with environment, intuition, and emotion. Each colour, each texture, is a response to what is felt but often unspoken. She does not set out to impose meaning, but allows meaning to emerge. What begins as reflection becomes revelation.

Whether through the repetitive, meditative architecture of crochet, the fractured narratives of collage, or the unpredictable fluidity of ink and fire, Chantal’s work explores the way we live and the ways we heal. She embraces the beautiful disasters of the creative process – the trial, the error, and the eventual transcendence – to produce work that reflects not just a personal vision, but a collective state of being. Chantal’s role is not to tell you what to see, but to offer a space where you might see yourself more clearly.

We are thrilled with our mural and thoroughly enjoyed the process with Chantal from start to finish. The ideation process pushed us out of our comfort zone so that we landed on a brilliant design that moves our brand look and feel forward whilst still retaining our values of fostering kindness, consciousness and calm through nature. It was so touching to see our community be involved… We had so much fun working together and connecting with our customers on a deeper level.

– Karen, founder of Blomma Beauty

Curriculum Vitae

  • 2024
    London, England
    No Format Galery
    Painting Open

    2023
    London, England
    No Format Galery
    Painting Open

    2023
    London, England
    No Format Galery
    Drawing Open

    2015
    London, England
    UAL: London Collage of Communication
    Grad Show

    2011
    London, England
    Business Design Centre
    Student Design Show

  • 2026
    London, England
    Talks with MS
    Sponsor - Donated gifts

    2025
    London, England
    Talks with MS
    Sponsor - Donated gifts

    2025
    London, England
    Dyslexia Celebration
    Dyslexic Artist and workshop host, as well as Sponsor

    2024
    London, England
    Talks with MS
    Sponsor - Donated gifts

    2016
    London, England
    MoreEyesDesign
    Workshop Assistant

    2015
    Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Doogle Images
    Model & Photographer Assistant

    2012
    San Francisco, CA, USA
    Intervention Week
    Gorilla planting all over the city

    2011
    London, England
    JB Shehan Photography
    Model & Wardrobe Assistant

    2010
    Edmonton, AB, Canada
    Freewill Shakespeare Festival
    Concession

    2010
    Edmonton, AB, Canada
    Serca Festival of Irish Theatre
    Concession

    2009 - 2010
    Edmonton, AB, Canada
    SEE Magazine
    Journalist, Photographer, My Look Column, Runner, Assistant

    2009
    Edmonton, AB, Canada
    Edmonton Fashion Week
    Hair Model

  • January 2025 – May 2025
    London, England
    London School of Muralism

    October 2012 – August 2015
    London, England
    University of the Arts London: London College of Communication
    (BA) Graphic & Media DesignBachelor of Arts Degree with First Class Honours

    September 2011 – April 2012
    San Francisco, California, United Sites of America
    California Collage of Art
    Second Year of Bachelor of Design, majoring in Graphic Design

    September 2010 – August 2011
    London, England
    Cavendish College
    Professional Diploma in Communications Design

    September 2009 - June 2010
    Edmonton, Canada
    University of Alberta
    Industrial Design

  • 2025
    Arteles Creative Center
    Hämeenkyrö, Finland
    Back to Basics

    2024
    Arteles Creative Center
    Hämeenkyrö, Finland
    Back to Basics

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