Artist Bio

Chantal Obeid is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice centres on conscious creation, material transformation, and the quiet power of the feminine. Working primarily with hand-built paper pulp clay made from up-cycled materials, her sculptural vessels explore themes of emotional and physical transformation, resilience and renewal.

She has been creating art for as long as she can remember, beginning her journey in painting before taking a meaningful pause to focus on building a family. Motherhood became a turning point in her practice and upon returning art, her work evolved from two-dimensional painting into tactile, materially driven forms that reflect both personal and environmental cycles of change.

She is a mother of three and a carer to a child with high support needs. This lived experience deeply informs her practice. Endurance, tenderness, unseen labour and quiet strength are embedded in the forms she creates. Her vessels often echo the body and the land, holding space for vulnerability and resilience to coexist.

A former marketing consultant, she has since stepped away from commercial practice to devote herself fully to her art and being a full-time mother and carer. This decision marked a conscious realignment with her long-held creative calling, allowing her to explore slower, more intentional ways of making that honour resourcefulness, care, and sustainability.

She holds a Bachelor of Business (Swinburne University) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Art History from the University of Melbourne, a study she undertook to deepen and nurture her lifelong passion for art. This academic grounding informs her sensitivity to material, form and historical resonance.

Her vessels are lovingly hand-built and hand-painted, often appearing as though shaped by time, earth, and elemental forces. Through softened forms, layered surfaces, and ancient, weathered aesthetics, her work invites reflection on impermanence, endurance and the beauty that emerges through transformation.