Charlotte Sigurdson

Charlotte Sigurdson is a Winnipeg-based painter, sculptor, and textile artist whose work orbits the strange beauty of the human condition. Born in Toronto and having lived across Canada and in Europe before settling on the prairies, she began her artistic life as a doll maker, creating bespoke dolls for children; over time, those toys evolved into finely crafted art dolls and figurative sculpture. Working across oil paint, textiles, ceramics, wood and goldwork, Sigurdson draws heavily on baroque imagery, history, and the “grotesque sublime,” often responding to specific historical events and ideas - from the 1918 influenza pandemic to contemporary reflections on damage, melancholy, and repair. After leaving a career in law to pursue art full-time, she developed her practice outside of traditional art-school structures, describing her portrait painting as self-taught and continuing to deepen her skills through specialized training such as goldwork study at the Royal School of Needlework. Sigurdson has presented solo exhibitions in Winnipeg and exhibits widely in galleries and craft contexts, where her paintings, dolls, and embroidered objects invite viewers into a surreal, historically inflected world that feels both intimate and eerily timeless.

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