Chantal Joffe at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
Chantal Joffe RA talks about her 2015 exhibition Beside the Seaside, and her approach to painting.
Chantal Joffe RA (b. 1969)
Joffe took a foundation course at Camberwell College of Art (1987 – 1988) before studying at Glasgow School of Art (1988 – 1991) and later the Royal College of Art (1992 – 1994).
She is known for her arresting portraits of women. Working from photographs, she uses broad, fluid brushstrokes to animate her protagonists. Ranging in scale from a few inches square to monumental canvases, her iconic depictions, which are often intimate and imbued with humour, testify to the concerns and mores of women from diverse walks of life.
She was awarded a Delfina Studio Trust Award (1994 – 1996), the Abbey Scholarship, British School at Rome (1998 – 1999) and won the Charles Wollaston Award for “the most distinguished work” in the Summer Exhibition (2006).
Profile
Born: 1969 in St Albans
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 13 March 2013
Professor of Painting: 2015 - 2019
Gender: Female
Preferred media: Painting
Works by Chantal Joffe in the RA Collection
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Chantal Joffe RA - Selected CV
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Recent solo exhibitions
2012 Cheim & Read, New York
2011 Galleria Capricorno, Venice
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2009 Monica de Cardenas, Milan
Cheim & Read, New York
2007 Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
2006 Regen Project, Los Angeles
2001 Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
1999 Feigen Contemporary, New York
Galeria Marabini, Bologna, Italy -
Selected collections
Arts Council of England, London
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
Saatchi Collection, London
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Portugal
Tate Collection, London
The Royal College of Art, London
UK Government Art Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, United States
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
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