1969 born St. Albans, lives and works in London

British artist Chantal Joffe is well known for her expressive studies of girl children, couples ludicrously copulating or women brazenly demonstrating their sexuality. Joffe's workings of these subjects subvert accepted cultural opinions of such imagery. Painted individually or in groups, her characters often peer out of the image, posing informally as if in family snapshots. Her characters display a good humoured, almost comical array of emotions ranging from innocence to corruption and sincerity to worldliness and artificiality. Joffe's fluid and deliberately disintegrating painting style, in which she feigns reckless carelessness, makes resonant the non-judgmental contradictions she observes in her subject matter. Further, her works emphasise the psychological relationships of her characters to one another and to the viewer.