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An original acrylic painting on canvas (4’ x 3’) by Vancouver artist Chelsea MacKay, from the Dolorum Ipsum Docet series. From “Borrowed Intimacy – a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries” (2026), Chelsea MacKay’s solo exhibition at Fingerprint Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
The series title plays on the ubiquitous “lorem ipsum” placeholder text — loosely, “sorrow itself teaches.” These canvases retell a personal history of love and heartbreak as a tension between concealment and exposure, damage and preservation, intimacy and distance — proposing love itself as something continually borrowed.
Chelsea MacKay (b. 1980, Hornby Island) is a Vancouver-based artist of Anishinaabe and Scottish descent working in sculptural installation, painting, and video. She holds an MFA from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Design from Emily Carr University, and studied joinery at BCIT. Her work draws on the aesthetics of the late 1990s and early 2000s alongside surrealist, Classical, and religious iconography.
2026 · Acrylic on canvas · 4’ x 3’
One-of-a-kind original artwork · Fingerprint Gallery, Vancouver, BC · Ships worldwide · Inquiries: jack@fingerprintgallery.ca
An original acrylic painting on canvas (4’ x 3’) by Vancouver artist Chelsea MacKay, from the Dolorum Ipsum Docet series. From “Borrowed Intimacy – a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries” (2026), Chelsea MacKay’s solo exhibition at Fingerprint Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
The series title plays on the ubiquitous “lorem ipsum” placeholder text — loosely, “sorrow itself teaches.” These canvases retell a personal history of love and heartbreak as a tension between concealment and exposure, damage and preservation, intimacy and distance — proposing love itself as something continually borrowed.
Chelsea MacKay (b. 1980, Hornby Island) is a Vancouver-based artist of Anishinaabe and Scottish descent working in sculptural installation, painting, and video. She holds an MFA from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Design from Emily Carr University, and studied joinery at BCIT. Her work draws on the aesthetics of the late 1990s and early 2000s alongside surrealist, Classical, and religious iconography.
2026 · Acrylic on canvas · 4’ x 3’
One-of-a-kind original artwork · Fingerprint Gallery, Vancouver, BC · Ships worldwide · Inquiries: jack@fingerprintgallery.ca