Chloe June Summerhayes

The Last Rites

2021

Oil on canvas

1650mm (H) x 2160mm (W) x 53mm (D)

Unframed

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Artist Statement

A nameless mass is built upon itself in all directions. There’s a central gravity sucking all towards it like a black hole. Rolling, climbing with no space to breathe.

About the Artist

Chloe June Summerhayes

My current practice is informed by questions and ideas around the cyclical nature of ourselves and our environments. Depictions of Rubenesque putti reappear throughout the series suggesting narrative and inviting interpretation. Despite alluding to canonical narrative within an historical context, this imagery is, primarily, a starting point for an exercise in painterly abstraction. Led by process, the work arrives somewhere between figuration and abstraction. The process is meditative, repetitive and shadowed by the pressures of time.
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