Chloe Hamill

Fine Art BA (Hons)

The lingering shadows in the back of your mind.

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I am a painter who experiments in various mediums including photography, film and sculpture. My work is based on the human experience. I create paintings that are emotional and energetic.

In this project I explore anxiety using bold brush strokes and specific colours. The colour palette I create is orchestrated to provoke emotion, from the underpainting to the final layer. My intentions for this project are to express my own inner conflict, knowing it could be reciprocated by the viewers. I photographed shadows which I then connected to the mental disorder as anxiety does follow the sufferer as a shadow would. I constructed this project with various mediums besides paint, this involved sculpture. I chose wool due to it’s soft texture and I bounded the wool together by wrapping it around various objects. This gave my sculptures an enclosed appearance, yet shows a self-soothing, repetitive act. The soft sculptures and chaotic paintings are a perfect balance between anxiety and self-care. Anxiety is isolating, unsettling and intense. Repetitive acts are a coping mechanism for those who suffer. The repetition in making my self-soothing woollen sculptures is performative within its own process which shows authenticity. The colours were selected with intention. It may resemble paint as they layer in the same form of a finished painting.

Overall, this project is educational and raw in terms of how it truly feels to battle a mental disorder in the form of art.

A round object with thread spiralling around it. The thread on the first layer is thick and blue with thin red thread overlapping it.

Figures Dancing

An abstract painting made using bold brush strokes. The background is blue and green. In the centre there are two figures in a yellow bubble. One figure is orange, the other is blue with streams of blue paint running over the figure.

Abstract painting that entails two figures enjoying each other’s company.

Self-soothing object

A sculpture made of wool; the wool is wrapped around a silicone object in a bundled mess. The colours are; purple, blue, brown, orange, yellow and green. This sculpture resembles one of the paintings shown here.

This piece shows repetition in a self-soothing act by binding wool around an object. This object beneath the wool cannot be seen by the viewer.

Forbidden Door

An abstract painting that shows a figure looking out, there is a door in the distance with foot prints leading up towards it. The background is pink with layers of green shown. The floors are purple and the corridor is orange. This painting resembles the sculpture that is also shown.

A figure is nervously watching a closed door. This painting is loud and chaotic to match how the figure may be feeling.

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