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Sarah Hyde talks to the artist Chantal Joffe about her new show, For Esme – with Love and Squalor, which examines her most intimate relationships, especially with her daughter Esme.
Thierry Bal. From pregnancy to birth, growing up to growing old, Chantal Joffe's intimate portraits capture the evolving stages of life and (mostly) female relationships. Many of the...
May 26, 2018 · Joffe has looked to Modersohn-Becker for years: ‘It’s the way she paints the connection between mother and child, the baby breastfeeding and looking back at its mother. I hope we share that directness.’
- Harriet Baker
Feb 24, 2017 · Untraceable, unidentifiable, we might wonder instead about this woman’s relationship with Joffe, imagining her as a sister, a niece, a friend. The work of the confessional poets, which takes human emotion, sincerity and vulnerability as its ultimate subject, frames Joffe’s practice.
Oct 21, 2020 · Esme, now aged 16, is the subject of Joffe's current solo show at Bristol's Arnolfini: 'For Esme – with Love and Squalor'. The exhibition charts their relationship, including the act of care and being cared for, between mother and daughter.
Jun 22, 2021 · There is such tenderness in the soft loose lines and brushwork of a body of new work that features her mother, Daryll, at different points in her life, and Daryll’s relationship with her children, including Joffe herself.
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Feb 26, 2016 · Chantal Joffe: ‘I want to make the painting feel like the person’. The artist talks about what she seeks to capture in a painting, how motherhood changed her, and why she is drawn to confessional poetry. by ANNA McNAY.
