Two Bodies Converge in Felt | Celeste Carter & Gwyn Rossiter
- Necessary Arts Collective
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
Updated: 22 hours ago
Showing May 13 - 20, 2025
"Two Bodies Converge in Felt consists of three colourful, eclectic felt collages that visualize the textile intersection of Gwyn’s interest in still life and Celeste’s process of simplifying forms and patterns from life. We simplify objects in our homes into flat symbols on felt, translating the everyday into foldable, modular shapes to be repeated and combined through collage. We amass large collections of flat objects cut from factory felt, from which we gather felt objects in our desired colours and forms, laying them out and beginning to compose our still lives. A loving waltz occurs as we collage and move our shapes, and the shapes interlock to form our compositions.
This process allows our homes to join in a loving embrace through layered, diverging, and complex shapes. Collaging modular felt objects allows us to use still-life representation methods and simplified forms to capture love’s ability to transcend distance and tangibility. We seek to converge our spaces as one, creating a content loop from which new spaces and symbols continuously derive."
— Celeste Carter and Gwyn Rossiter
Celeste Carter
Celeste Carter (she/they) is a printmaker and interdisciplinary artist based in Stratford and Guelph, ON. Celeste reflects on the industrial history and flat aesthetics inherent in printmaking processes to generate patterns and motifs from nature and her collection of secondhand objects. Celeste often combines prints on ephemeral and archival surfaces with mass-produced and found materials to examine production cycles and the permanence of waste.
Celeste holds an Honours BA in Studio Art with a minor in Art History from the University of
Guelph (2024). Celeste has recently exhibited their work in Guelph at Otherwise Studios, Art
Not Shame, Zavitz Gallery, and Lalani Jennings Contemporary Art. They were a mentee in
Guelph Arts Council’s Guelph Emerging Artist Mentorship Program (2022) and a recipient of the University of Guelph’s Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation Printmaking Prize (2023). Celeste was the 2024 Print Artist in Residence at Otherwise Studios.
Gwyn Rossiter
Gwyn Rossiter is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on objects and symbols from daily life. Incorporating found objects into elaborate still-life representations that feature modern concepts and compositions, while drawing on complex and historical traditions of still-life painting and history. Gwyn is interested in the relationship between the individual and inanimate, and the imposed narratives from person to object. They explore love, queer identity and semiotics through objects and their portrayal in painting and visual arts. Through a lens of still life, Gwyn extends their practice into painting, printmaking and soft sculpture. Exploring the reproduction and simplification of forms using textiles as a malleable and soft medium, pushing and pulling forms from representation to abstraction. Gwyn has created bodies of work exploring these forms sourced from instances of human imposition on nature in their exhibition ROADKILL in Zavitz Gallery (2023).
Featured Work
Two Bodies Converge in Felt, 32” x 48”, Felt and fabric glue, 2024
★ Original Felt Collage — $4,200
★ 14” x 11” Digital Fine Art Print (Signed, Open Edition) — $20
Birds on Fences, Tulips in Storefront Windows, 21” x 24”, Felt and fabric glue, 2024
★ Original Felt Collage — $1,400
★ 12” x 12” Digital Fine Art Print (Signed, Open Edition) — $20
I Can Hold You Like Soft Felt in My Hands, 42” x 50”, Felt and fabric glue, 2024
★ Original Felt Collage — $5,800
★ 11” x 14” Digital Fine Art Print (Signed, Open Edition) — $20
** Two Bodies Converge in Felt ZINE Available for Sale (Signed, Open Edition) — $15
★ 8 pages (5.5” x 4.25” page size)
★ Zine includes images of all three felt collages featured in the show Two Bodies Converge in Felt at N/A Gallery, accompanied by writing by Celeste and Gwyn
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