Studio Sale 2023 | Chloe Scott-Moncrieff

CS Moncrieff's paintings are rhythmical visualisations, frequently exploring the relationship between femaleness and the land. Creativity abounds in the stories she constructs, often within the compositions themselves. 

There are utopian and dystopian elements in Moncrieff’s practice, reflecting her generation’s conflicted feelings about the future. The tension is inferred in the light and dark, the fleeting flecks against the thick gestural sweeps, urban against wilderness. Colour is non naturalistic, brushstrokes are fast and fluid. A tilted angle plane is favoured, typically from just above. 

The work also conveys bursts of merriment, reflecting a joy for the land surrounding Moncrieff - the doves, mushrooms, fleshy foliage all exist in the woods she lives by. 

While there is an element of angst, there’s escapism, a celebration of wilderness, with folklore and mythology interwoven into the subtext. She exhibits nationally and internationally.

I’m interested in our cognitive dissonance with nature. We put it on a pedestal, we Disnify it. Yet we simultaneously destroy it. 

Accolades:

Selected as featured artist with two works at ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London. Nov 22.

Finalist in Hastings Museum and Art Gallery open call selected after two rounds. Fairground exhibiting Sept 22-Jan 23.

Finalist in Parker Harris open call, Art of Football. Work in collection at Touchstones Rochdale, Millennium Gallery in Sheffield, now at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens until March 2023.

Selected Doves of Peace, Paris, group show ArtCan to January 2023.

Awarded a place on New Platform Art programme mentorship course through Parker Harris open call to June 23. 

Selected in national open call - Art & People postcard exhibition, curated by art advisor Claudia Kennaugh, exhibiting Bristol & Chelsea. Dec 22.

Turps Banana correspondence course cohort. 22-2023.

ArtCan member from 2021. London Paint Club member.

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