Born in 1990 in Durban, South Africa, Chelsea is a conceptual and process-based artist living in Liverpool, UK, whose interdisciplinary practice explores the complexities of the human condition. Drawing from philosophy, psychology, and literature, her work investigates intergenerational trauma, psychic inheritance, identity, storytelling, and collective healing. Through a sustained engagement with material and process, she gives form to the intangible—translating memory, longing, and the echoes of inherited experience into sculptural and spatial expressions.

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Chelsea works with a diverse range of materials, including latex, resin, and sound, to create immersive installations that evoke ritualistic and meditative atmospheres. She approaches art as a sensory language—one that transcends rational thought and verbal communication, inviting viewers into a space of embodied perception. By activating sensory memory through touch, sound, and spatial presence, her work opens pathways to the unseen and the unspoken.

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Repetition and multiplicity are foundational to her practice, functioning as both formal strategy and conceptual metaphor. Repetition echoes the ways in which trauma, memory, and experience are reinforced or transformed over time. Multiplicity gestures to the idea that no memory or narrative exists in isolation; rather, they shift and accumulate across generations and collective consciousness. Through iterative processes and material accumulation, Chelsea enacts the very dynamics she investigates—how trauma imprints, how stories persist, and how healing may emerge through ritual, rupture, and reconfiguration.

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Central to her practice is an inquiry into the maternal body as a vessel of memory and transformation. This exploration materialises through sculptural forms that are often embedded within larger installations and accompanied by soundscapes woven with ancestral voices, murmurs, and elemental sounds. These layered environments invite reflection and resonance, grounding the viewer in both ancestral and bodily time.

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Through her work, Chelsea seeks to make the invisible visible and the unspoken felt—creating spaces where the ineffable dimensions of human experience can be sensed, held, and reimagined beyond the limits of language.

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