Solo Exhibition
1 July - 31 July 2020

Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 1 July 2020
Exhibition Closure: Friday 31 July 2020 Share Facebook Twitter

Mia Chaplin (b. 1990; Durban, South Africa) is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Cape Town. Working in oil on canvas and paper, as well as in bronze and plaster sculpture, her highly expressive works are characterised by their rich impasto surfaces and visible brushwork. Her loose style of painting is intuitive, thus heightening the emotion of her pieces. Chaplin’s works are considered subjective impressions of the female experience in relation to themes of sexuality, sensuality, intimacy, and violence.

“Because of lockdown I was stuck in my house, in my studio. I was like painting the walls of my lounge; and being here just gave me a lot of space and silence to work…I started painting impasto when I was in art school I was working from this really bad image of a mountain, like a snowy mountain scape, and it was all pixelated and you couldn’t really see what it was, so I just started using the paint to try actually create what the image was of, instead of trying to make a picture of a mountain scape. I tried to actually make the mountain scape out of paint. And I found it much more interesting and I think it’s a lot more sensual and the texture is very inviting.”

Read the full artist interview here.