Lot 287 - Jo Chate - Line Up

Inkjet print
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Jo Chate is a contemporary artist who transforms moments and phenomena from everyday life to create complex, enigmatic paintings. Her way of working is exploratory; embracing dualities which result in connections and complexities that are not easily definable. The paintings ultimately become the site of transformation, refracting and colliding experiences with future recollections.

Alongside working on paintings, Jo Chate is experimental with collage, photography and painting on prints. Working this way has become part of her process to defamiliarise the familiar, to absorb and change until the final image evolves incorporating elements of the original.

Education
2002-2004
MA in Fine Art Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

1999-2002
BA Fine Art, 1st class, Kingston University, Kingston, UK

1998-1999
Foundation Diploma, City & Guilds, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions
2024
OUTLIERS, Q&C Gallery, Cambridge UK

2017
NOTES FROM THE WHITE BOOK, The Perfume Factory, London, UK

2012
ANGELIS DEFENSA, Vicoli Poli, Spoleto, Italy

Group Exhibitions
2025
DISTURB THE LOGIC, TondoCosmic, London UK

2024
LIGHT IT UP: WINTER MENAGERIE, TondoCosmic, London, UK
MICROSTORIA, Polarraum, Hamburg, Germany
GOTH IN A LANDSCAPE, Museum Galleries, Aberystwyth School of Art, Wales, UK
UNDONE, TondoCosmic, London, UK
YOU ARE THE CIRCLE, Excelsior, London, UK
THIS YEAR'S MODEL 2024 PART II, Studio 1.1, London, UK
RADICAL RESIDENCY VIII 2024 EXHIBITION, Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK

2023
OPEN04, Excelsior, London, UK
CUSTARD SPLITS, SET London, UK
THIS YEAR'S MODEL 2023 PART III, Studio 1.1, London, UK
SIDE STEP, SET London, UK

2022
WOMXN - FAIR ART FAIR CURATED II Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK

Public Collections
The Royal College of Art, London, UK

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Three mixed media works from the mannequin series; two are paint on digital prints of mannequins originally seen in shop windows. In 'Warrior 2' she becomes a she warrior in a post-apocalyptic world, flanked by her skeleton partner and child. In the second card, the mannequins emerge from the darkness, human but not human, part AI. The third postcard 'Line up' - three headless mannequins in a row, one blue. These works challenge traditional depictions of the female form from the perspective of a female artist.