Gabby Gatbonton is a Winnipeg-based, queer artist working across painting, textiles, and soft sculpture. Her practice explores identity, intimacy, and the body as a site of transformation, shaped by lived experience, desire, and memory. Moving between controlled painterly processes and the tactile unpredictability of fibre, Gatbonton is interested in how materials can reflect the shifting nature of selfhood.

Through erotic and figurative imagery, crochet, and soft sculpture, Gatbonton creates work that sits between vulnerability and agency. By pairing historically “decorative” craft with charged representations of queer bodies, she challenges ideas of taboo and power while reclaiming the act of being seen. Her work invites slow, attentive looking, asking viewers to move beyond surface readings and toward deeper connections with the bodies, stories, and transformations embedded within the work.