Adelle Rawluk
“I aim to capture the harshness of the place that we call home, the personal histories that we use to craft our own identities and how they can be lost in time. ”
— EXCERPT FROM INTERVIEW (20.11.2025)
Adelle Rawluk is a Canadian artist based in Winnipeg. Working primarily in oil painting alongside found and shared objects, her practice explores themes of memory, identity, mourning, and longing through a prairie lens.
Drawing from personal and collective histories shaped by rural life, agricultural communities, and inherited stories, she examines what is lost, forgotten, and preserved over time. Human presence is largely absent from her work, instead emerging through animals, objects, and vernacular materials that function as stand-ins for lived experience. Influenced by iconography, reliquaries, and Flemish Gothic painting, Rawluk creates works in which meaning resides in what remains—where memory is carried by place, material, and the quiet traces of everyday life.
