TAKE ME TO ARCHIVE
ADELLE RAWLUK
Adelle Rawluk is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Combining oil painting, textiles, and sculpture with locally found and shared objects, Rawluk seeks to harness memory and meaning through representations of the things we see and experience and the things we leave behind, exploring human reflections in the lives and objects that surround us.
Rawluk collects old furniture, house fixtures and elements of the vernacular in craft work from local and rural communities. Found objects and materials are deconstructed and rebuilt to create frames and soft sculpture that enshrine painted imagery, reshaping the act and context of viewing.
Through painting, familiar figures of the landscape are transformed into reflections of our own experiences; symbols of stories, lives, and subjects of memory. Domestic animals, livestock, wild game, and taxidermied figures become representations of the thoughts, feelings and presence of lives unknown or forgotten.
‘I create pieces in which meaning resides in what remains and is absent- where memory is carried by place, material, and the quiet traces of everyday life.’
For more information on Adelle Rawluk’s work, visit her website here, and see the work in the February issue of Class Favourite here.
1. FROST [2026] Oil on Canvas.
2. REMEMBERING (BLUE EYES) [2025] Oil on canvas, salvaged window frame from an old prairie
farm house. 66 x 82 cm.
3. SONNET [2025]Mixed media, repurposed textiles, found objects, transferred found image. Hand-sewn.
4. DAYS (LET NO BELL TOLL) [2025]Oil on canvas, found frame. 58 x 73 cm.
5. SONGS OF INNOCENCE [2024]Oil on paper. 23 x 32 cm.
6. A MOTHER/AN EWE [2024]Oil on paper, found frame, lace. 25 x 30 cm.
7. WORK HORSE [2024] Oil on canvas, found fabric, lace. 41 x 51 cm.
8. WHAT MY MOTHER GAVE ME [2023]Oil on fabric, found lace and jewelry, found and family objects,
acrylic hair, faux fur, my Great Grandmother’s Vanity. 152 x 122 x 76 cm.