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“Faithless the Reason I Stayed and the Reason I Left” is an original mixed-media work by Vancouver artist Chelsea MacKay: a blown-up concert ticket stub set against silver bubble wrap in a torched and painted frame. From “Borrowed Intimacy – a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries” (2026), Chelsea MacKay’s solo exhibition at Fingerprint Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
A relic of a single night out is enlarged into monument and elegy at once. The scorched frame — a recurring gesture in MacKay’s practice — simultaneously reveals, obscures, and preserves what lies beneath, turning a throwaway keepsake into a record of devotion and departure.
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 · Blown-up concert ticket stub, silver bubble wrap, torched and painted frame
One-of-a-kind original artwork · Fingerprint Gallery, Vancouver, BC · Ships worldwide · Inquiries: jack@fingerprintgallery.ca
“Faithless the Reason I Stayed and the Reason I Left” is an original mixed-media work by Vancouver artist Chelsea MacKay: a blown-up concert ticket stub set against silver bubble wrap in a torched and painted frame. From “Borrowed Intimacy – a retrospective of heartbreak and other injuries” (2026), Chelsea MacKay’s solo exhibition at Fingerprint Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
A relic of a single night out is enlarged into monument and elegy at once. The scorched frame — a recurring gesture in MacKay’s practice — simultaneously reveals, obscures, and preserves what lies beneath, turning a throwaway keepsake into a record of devotion and departure.
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 · Blown-up concert ticket stub, silver bubble wrap, torched and painted frame
One-of-a-kind original artwork · Fingerprint Gallery, Vancouver, BC · Ships worldwide · Inquiries: jack@fingerprintgallery.ca