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New year, new art space and Chloe Vallance
artists, spaces
7 January 2010
Hello 2010 – what a great feeling this year has!
This week I popped into Carbon Black Gallery, a new contemporary art space on High Street, in Prahran – a lovely space for emerging artists. Carbon Black's first show consisted of 11 emerging artists across various mediums:
- Aly Aitkin's fantastic, humorous well-crafted sculpture
- Jane Brown in photography
- Marisa Corral (printmaking)
- Chris Dolman (printmaking)
- Daniel Kolieb (photography)
- Kristin McIver (painting)
- Sheena Mathieson (sculpture)
- Rishi Meyhanden (photography)
- Luke Rogers (sculpture)
- Michael Staniak (painting)
- and my favorite, Chloe Vallance, in drawing and painting.
Chloe has recently received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with Honours from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions since 2007.
Chloe's work is small and intimate, well drawn with movement and texture. The use of a wooden background and coloured pencils work so well. Chloe's people have been captured in movement, riding, walking a path or sitting.
They are isolated figures on wood, with no background or middle ground. The smaller the figure the more intense it becomes as the viewer is forced to look with intent. Chloe's work is very reasonably priced and can sit quite comfortably alone or in a collective group.
"sunnybrae muster", by Chloe Vallance (colour pencil on paper, 36cm x 35cm)
Check Chloe's website
Enjoy!