Tag: Chantal Joffe

Mother Figure (On Being Painted by Chantal Joffe)

Blackshaw and Joffe during the sitting for the third painting in the series, 28 February 2018. (Suki Dhanda, 2018)

  The following was written by Gemma Blackshaw, Professor of Art History, for the major exhibition Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Main Thing at The Lowry, Salford (19 May – 2 September 2018), which displayed new and recent paintings by Joffe alongside paintings by Paula Modersohn-Becker.   Sunday 11 March I woke for the first… Continue reading Mother Figure (On Being Painted by Chantal Joffe)

Feature: “Confessional Painting: Recent work by Chantal Joffe”

Chantal Joffe Anne in her Study, 2015 Oil on board 40.8 x 30.5 cm 16 1/8 x 12 1/8 in Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London (Photography Stephen White) © Chantal Joffe

BY GEMMA BLACKSHAW Linda, you are leaving your old body now. It lies flat, an old butterfly, all arm, all leg, all wing, loose as an old dress. I reach out toward it but my fingers turn to cankers and I am motherwarm and used, just as your childhood is used. (Anne Sexton, ‘Mother and… Continue reading Feature: “Confessional Painting: Recent work by Chantal Joffe”