Chloe Barnes | To Higher Grounds, 2024
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 53 x 73 cm
Image Dimensions: 37 x 51 cm
Unique Work
Framed Only
Chloe is an award-winning London-based artist creating figurative monotypes about identity, emotion, and the experience of women, including her own. Her work uses distorted forms and blurred or masked faces to invite the viewer to see themselves as the subject of the scene and find resonance in both the familiar and reimagined. Each piece begins with a feeling, which she follows freely, embracing the speed constraints and unpredictability of the monoprinting process to ‘paint with print’ and push against conventional ideas of perfection. Intuitive mark-making, expressive movements, and ‘mistakes’ are all integral to Chloe’s approach: ink can smear, lines can bleed, and the mirrored image can look entirely different from the painted plate. By exploring her own experience through artistic introspection, she also aims to empower others to see themselves in new ways, outside of the personal, familial, and societal expectations to conform to traditional gender roles, authority, and power dynamics. As part of her practice, Chloe works with found film photography of anonymous subjects, combining these sources with her own self-portrait photos and charcoal studies to consider how we form who we are and our relationship to our bodies. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and the Royal Society of British Artists Bicentennial Exhibition, where she won the Hahnemühle Fine Art Award. In 2023, she was selected as a finalist for the ACS Studio Prize and The Margate Art Prize, judged by Tracey Emin. Chloe holds an MA (Distinction) in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking from the University of the West of England.
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 53 x 73 cm
Image Dimensions: 37 x 51 cm
Unique Work
Framed Only
Chloe is an award-winning London-based artist creating figurative monotypes about identity, emotion, and the experience of women, including her own. Her work uses distorted forms and blurred or masked faces to invite the viewer to see themselves as the subject of the scene and find resonance in both the familiar and reimagined. Each piece begins with a feeling, which she follows freely, embracing the speed constraints and unpredictability of the monoprinting process to ‘paint with print’ and push against conventional ideas of perfection. Intuitive mark-making, expressive movements, and ‘mistakes’ are all integral to Chloe’s approach: ink can smear, lines can bleed, and the mirrored image can look entirely different from the painted plate. By exploring her own experience through artistic introspection, she also aims to empower others to see themselves in new ways, outside of the personal, familial, and societal expectations to conform to traditional gender roles, authority, and power dynamics. As part of her practice, Chloe works with found film photography of anonymous subjects, combining these sources with her own self-portrait photos and charcoal studies to consider how we form who we are and our relationship to our bodies. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and the Royal Society of British Artists Bicentennial Exhibition, where she won the Hahnemühle Fine Art Award. In 2023, she was selected as a finalist for the ACS Studio Prize and The Margate Art Prize, judged by Tracey Emin. Chloe holds an MA (Distinction) in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking from the University of the West of England.
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 53 x 73 cm
Image Dimensions: 37 x 51 cm
Unique Work
Framed Only
Chloe is an award-winning London-based artist creating figurative monotypes about identity, emotion, and the experience of women, including her own. Her work uses distorted forms and blurred or masked faces to invite the viewer to see themselves as the subject of the scene and find resonance in both the familiar and reimagined. Each piece begins with a feeling, which she follows freely, embracing the speed constraints and unpredictability of the monoprinting process to ‘paint with print’ and push against conventional ideas of perfection. Intuitive mark-making, expressive movements, and ‘mistakes’ are all integral to Chloe’s approach: ink can smear, lines can bleed, and the mirrored image can look entirely different from the painted plate. By exploring her own experience through artistic introspection, she also aims to empower others to see themselves in new ways, outside of the personal, familial, and societal expectations to conform to traditional gender roles, authority, and power dynamics. As part of her practice, Chloe works with found film photography of anonymous subjects, combining these sources with her own self-portrait photos and charcoal studies to consider how we form who we are and our relationship to our bodies. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and the Royal Society of British Artists Bicentennial Exhibition, where she won the Hahnemühle Fine Art Award. In 2023, she was selected as a finalist for the ACS Studio Prize and The Margate Art Prize, judged by Tracey Emin. Chloe holds an MA (Distinction) in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking from the University of the West of England.
