Artist Statement + Biography

Chelsea Revelle is a Boston based assemblage artist - whether its reconfiguring dollhouse parts, sawing through discarded furniture, juxtaposing vintage wallpaper patterns or fabric remnants, and superimposing found imagery or original photographs- Chelsea admires the improvisational play of unexpected relationships and its complex connotations to themes of the home. Inspired by the Victorian era and its psychological impact on domesticity, led Chelsea to explore concepts of confinement, constraint and the historical attitudes of passivity and submission that are often associated with the traditional craft of “women’s work”. Breaking away from those rules of tradition, laborious processes such as embroidery and hand quilting techniques, aim to push the compositions into a state of emerging hysteria and reclaimed mindfulness. 

Chelsea received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and later achieved her Masters in Nonprofit Leadership from Wheelock College. The fine art that Chelsea creates has been featured in museums and galleries such as Fuller Craft Museum, Robert Mann Gallery, Nichols House Museum and Fountain Street Gallery. Magazines such as Creative Quarterly, Create! and The Hand have featured her work and generous reviews have appeared in the Jealous Curator, ArtScope Magazine and Boston Hassle. Chelsea's embroidery work was published in Dream House, a collaborative publication in honor of the 50th anniversary of Womenhouse. 

Life in the city inspired Chelsea to invest her time in community arts-based education and works to advance access and opportunities for emerging  artists. Chelsea is currently the Senior Manager of Studio Art Classes at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and member of Copley Society of Art.
 In her spare time, you can find Chelsea rummaging through collections in her Jamaica Plain studio, riding her bike, searching for beach treasures and spoiling her pet ferret Nova.