Chloe Edwards

@papercrane17

The work that Chloe has undertaken draws on roadside weeds, thrifted or abandoned household objects and found decorative motifs. These images/objects/lifeforms that resist our reverie due to their very dailiness prompt a poetic questioning of what is worth noticing.

In engaging with the everyday, there is an almost endless source of material but like the weeds that take over marginalised spaces pattern also has the capacity to overwhelm. The proliferation of weeds and pattern mirrors both Chloe’s repetitious working method and the nature of domestic labour which can induce a contemplative state of mind involving both beauty and despair. This mingling of the overgrown and pattern, domestic and artistic labour and its potential for loss of self is a continuing preoccupation.

Over the past few years, Chloe has been developing a working method that accommodates slowness and interruption, always leaving open the possibility of return. A broken-up way of working that allows room for failure and fragility, the awkward and the flawed. This way of working has meant coming to accept the warpage that occurs due to accumulated error, welcoming the handmade and the decorative into concise abstraction.

View the works: Demountable Studios First Floor, Ground Floor Gallery