Chloe S Moncrieff
Chloe S Moncrieff (b 1976, London) studied English for her BA after gaining her diploma in fine art at Winchester School of Art. She continued her practice while working as a writer for newspapers in London. She completed three months drawing at the Royal Drawing School (2010) and recently, attended the Turps Banana Art School correspondence course, studying under John Moores winner, Sarah Pickstone.
In 2020, she left her career in journalism to pursue art full time. Selected shows since include ING Discerning Eye and Auction Collective 30 of the UK’s Best Emerging Artists. She’s a Hastings Open finalist, Sheffield’s Millennium gallery and Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens finalist.
In September, she attended the Cel del Nord residency in Catalonia producing a body of work now with Auc Art, the global auctioneers. She’s also received tutelage with the New Platform Art professional development programme and is a member of ArtCan.
2024 sees a debut trio show in January in New Ashgate, Farnham, followed by Art on a Postcard in spring. Chloe lives in Hants with her family, fantail doves and hens.
About her practice:
I create sensual environments, often exploring our complex relationship with the land. Literature and stories inform my work, as much as the world we live in.
As the global situation becomes more turbulent, wracked with wars and aggression, my investigations increasingly depict reimagined worlds and animals. These are wild places, tempered by a sense of abandonment.
Forces are omnipresent; wind, moons, trees, fire, all feature to depict inter connectivity.
Using archetypes and symbolism to represent forces of nature, ecopolitics, femininity and the natural world are key to my practice. I try to offer a glimpse of a lost paradise. But there’s duality and ambiguity, a slipperiness, hence the sense of movement. Love and destruction are simultaneously at play, as is joy and darkness.For commission enquiries
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