CHANTAL JOFFE: BESIDE THE SEASIDE │ Jerwood Gallery, Hastings → 12 April 2015

Esme by the Railings, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery. © Chantal Joffe

Esme in a Checked Shirt, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery. © Chantal Joffe

Self-Portrait with Esme in St Leonards, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery. © Chantal Joffe

Self Portrait with Esme on the Promenade, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery. © Chantal Joffe

Vita by the Sea, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery. © Chantal Joffe

Nicholas Sinclair, Chantal Joffe, 2014

Pinky, 2014. Oil on board. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery. ©Chantal Joffe

“A mêjr xibišn v wrcs bî Šãtal Jof ôpnz ɖ 2015 sīzn at Jrwŭd Gaḷri.

Born in Vrmont in 1969, Šãtal gru p in Lundn, ẇr š stl livz n wrcs, bt š spendz a grt dīl v tîm in Hêstñz n St Leṇdz.

Jof pênts pârfl pwtrits, mostli v wimin n čildṛn, ẇč hv astonišñ insît, integṛti n hymr. Š pênts wɖ xpresv fluiḍti, yzñ lj brušstrôcs t capčr prṣnaḷti n a sens v muvmnt.

2015 z vri mč Šãtal Jof’s yir, wɖ xibišnz in Ny Ywc n at ɖ Našnl Pwtrit Gaḷri. It ol bginz wɖ Bsd Ɖ Sìsîd at Jrwŭd Gaḷri, ɖ onli šo wɖ a fôc̣s on hr pwtrits fīčrñ fmiłr sìnz v Hêstñz n St Leṇdz.

Jof hz xibitd arnd ɖ wrld, wɖ mêjr xibišnz in Helsnci, Milan, Los Anjlīz n Lundn. Šãtal z an Ilct membr v ɖ Royl Acaḍmi n š hz rsivd mni awōdz ʈrt hr c̣rir, includñ ɖ Delfina Stydio Trust Awōd (1994), ɖ Abi Mêjr Scolršp in Pêntñ at ɖ Britiš Scūl at Rôm (1998) n ɖ Royl Acaḍmi’z Čālz Woḷstn Awōd (2006).

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