Having grown up in the North-East, on an estate with , still, one of the highest numbers of poverty and crime in the city, Chanelle's works present themselves as complex acts of protest, which are characterised by the lived experience of classism and the prejudices that causes. This is made constant through collaboration, conversation and her recollection of childhood. Works span from painting, photography, sculpture, video and performance; durational performances acting out her families ordeals and narrative . And so her work often carries out elements of naivety and humour to subtly subvert the truths of authorship and legality, and authority.