Chantal Joffe
An exhibition of new work by Chantal Joffe, in which celebrated writers keep company with the artist's friends and family members. Practising painting and drawing as the loving collection of subjects, people met in the flesh and on the page, Joffe prompts a re-evaluation of notions of self-disclosure and intimacy in the making of work.
A long-time observer of her immediate surroundings, Joffe's practice springs from the non-transferable nature of experience; a recent strain of her work places her commitment to the sensing, fleshy place from which a painter paints in relation to confessional poetry. Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell, among others, introduced to their work in the second half of the twentieth century the texture of lived experience, loosening formal strictures as they complicated, rather than collapsed, the relationship between personality and creative output.
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Chantal Joffe talks to Wallpaper* about her upcoming solo exhibition, I Remember
October 17 2025‘When I’m painting, I have the sense that [time] is a kind of present tense, as if our ghosts are all still here, everywhere all at once.’Read More -
Chantal Joffe: The Prince at The Exchange, Penzance
May 12 2025On view 15 May–1 November 2025, the exhibition includes two major new bodies of work. The first series of four large-scale paintings shows Joffe’s partner,...Read More
