Catherine Chambers

I loved where curator @artist_orhan_cebrailoglu positioned my work within the @chkalpak collection. The themes of the surrounding artists complimented my “Workers paintings” : the bundles representing the harvest, the hung painters jeans pausing between creations, the bold shapes and lines of colour from the barrels complimenting my compositions. It was the right home for them in the best company ✨

My work is always in response to the environment that I am in, so for this opportunity I began with a walk, and discovered a quiet place with farming machinery.
The machines felt like sculptures in their own right. They reminded me of Orhans own sculptures “Ch Kalpak karıncaları” that live among the vineyard grounds.

I wanted to respond to this, I drew directly onto the canvases among the machines on the land, and later the drawings evolved into their own beings, as I painted between the barrels.

I see the works as figures; workers, with the stones they carry representing the weight of personal responsibility and duty. To me, they aren’t so different from my usual themes, it was limited time and materials… a compromised way of working that led me to divert further visually.
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