Chantel

Chantel works with joy and excitement to create her signature collages, often containing surrealist elements of nature. She reuses images from magazines and newspapers, and brightly coloured paper scraps to make vivid, excitingly curated collages, exemplifying how seemingly discarded pieces of paper can create beautiful artworks. Images of people, animals and plants are contrasted by striking graphic backgrounds and brought to life by their often humorous placement. Well known for her collages, recently Chantel has been experimenting with more abstract works; she is extremely playful and bold with her mark-making, creating striking and expressive pieces.

Artistic expression can help foster engagement with others, and Chantel relishes the social aspect of Artbox. She finds her creativity an excellent way to communicate and interact with volunteers and other artists: her bubbly personality translates to her artworks with ease, rendering her collages exciting conversation starters. Chantel absolutely loves coming to exhibitions, and showing others her work. Her support worker, Jessie, says “For Chantel it is one of the best things in her life. When there is no class, in holiday time, she will ask ‘when are we going back to art class?’”