Clelia is a visual artist whose work includes mask and puppet design, installations, collage, and illustration. Her explorations into the fantastic and uncanny stem from a lifelong engagement with tales and myths and her interest in the theme of human interaction with the natural world.
As a designer and fabricator for theatre, Clelia has worked with companies and institutions such as Bad New Days, Carousel Players, Geordie Theatre, Guilty by Association, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Odyssey Theatre, Queen’s University, Suitcase in Point, Theatre Kingston, University of Missouri-St Louis Opera Theatre, Yale University, and Zacadia Circus. Clelia’s visual art has shown in galleries in Canada and the United States.
Clelia's publications include a series of collages for Alice Through the Working Class (BlazeVox 2024) and Alice in Plunderland (BookThug 2015), both by Steve McCaffery, and collage illustrations for I Can Say Interpellation (BookThug 2011) by Stephen Cain.
Personal creative projects currently in the works are a series of short shadow puppet films and a puppetry piece about eating. In 2025, her shipping-container installation with ceramic artist Marney McDermaid titled "Drift" will open as an exhibit with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. She is also working on several projects as a commissioned artist/designer.
Clelia is the recipient of the 2019 Established Artist Award for the City of St Catharines. Her work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Kingston Arts Fund, and the St Catharines Cultural Investment Program (with Puppet-A-Go-Go). She teaches design in the Dan School of Drama & Music at Queen's University.
