CHLOE
WING
Collection: Hand cut Paper Cutting art
Paper Cages
A dreamy, ethereal and haunting world of the psychosocial...
Paper cutting self-portrait series 2023, 'Gilded Mask' and 'Rose-Coloured Glasses'. 2nd image by Stuart Hull.
I / 1 / 1st, 2023, self-portrait
'Little Black Dress' 2022, INFEMS exhibition '5 Needles, 5 Wire' coming soon in Summer 2022
'Paper Gown' 2021, Chinese Arts Now X Two Temple Place. Photo by Johan Persson.
'Paper Cage', 2014, part of the Ingram Collection
'Paper Rings' by Chloe Wing. 'Walls' exhibition at Rich Mix, as part of the CAN festival 2020. (Video courtesy of Angelus Squid Marr.)
Hat 1 - Fear, Hat 2 - Mask and Hat 3 - Intuition, cut out hats in self-portraits, 2021
Installations / artworks
commissioned by Two Temple Place x CAN ... This antiquated gown harks back to some old ideals that are very much echoing in the present and future...
Now showing at Compton Verney as part of the 'A Spirit Inside' until Sept 2024
hidden words, hidden feelings, hidden realm, externalised. Hidden inside doesn't mean it's not real... valuing and nurturing the soul within Photo by Walki Freedreamer Tinkanesh
Wanting to put out loving imagery as a response to all the negativity I see on social media on a daily basis. The world needs more love whilst acknowledging the suffering in it too... wearing a hand cut corset made of layered hearts. I feel it is important to put out there positive and loving images during very troubled times. The juxtaposition of sadness with hope is a human need. Photo by Eric Schneider Photography
Self-portraits, starting to see myself through someone else's eyes...collaborations with the photographer... photo by Stuart Hull
Cut out Leather jacket and denim skirt. Photo by Mark Lawrie
each image is telling a story, an old one, a present one and a new one. They are all intertwined in the mind, the story of old... continuing to work with a photographer... Photo by Laraine Mak Designs
self-portrait photo by Mark Lawrie
Self-Portrait... A mask that reveals the inner thoughts and feelings rather than a mask that conceals.
'Engagement Ring' , 2019, hand cut paper
'Paper Rings', 2020
'Paper Tag', 2020 - 'Walls' exhibition at Rich Mix, part of CAN 2020 festival.
'Paper Balcony', 2017
... in the studio
My latest installation Paper Windows is an adaptable piece from a curatorial stand point. These 4 window pieces can be arranged as an enclosure in a tight or open square shape. Or suspended higher up with two as a ground floor level and two as first floor level...
With cut outs such as 'Pretty Girl', 'Good Girl', 'Old Curtains' and 'Memory is my Disease', this piece comments on not only the pressures that women have today, but also how it is deeply engrained into the fabric of our society and deeply disturbs our thoughts of ourselves... How we do not realise the full implications of aesthetics and beauty... and how they are an inevitable part of being a woman today.
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Beautiful Cages
My Paper Cages....
My cut out installations are made for an audience, who are essentially important to the meaning of the artworks.
I hand cut all my work as this allows me to have a close relationship with it. This Expressionistic approach makes it personal and produces a narrative... a narrative that requires movement.
The works are immersive and atmospheric, decorative yet emotional. I would like the viewer to wonder... why things are the way they are... And by stripping away the physical and material appearances, and instead using words I seek to highlight the internal realm as opposed to the superficial. I look at how we can relate on a humane and human level, to shift the focus to feelings and thought rather than surface judgments. I take away specific identities and circumstances, so that what is left is words and interactions, often cruel and tortured, so that the viewer experiences these words themselves out of context. It is really about how we can all be alienated and isolated and feel hurt if such things were said to us, or if we felt these thoughts within us. What happens when you see the word 'weird', 'wrong' 'should' or 'freak'? How do you feel?
Themes of status symbols, humanity, community, psychology, isolation, fear and man-made ideas feature in my art as a trail of clues. What is it that we think exactly and where does it come from? Are our views and feelings towards ourselves and others fixed? Are they taught and illusory?... Can they be unlearned? I am concerned with the history of identity within established status' and hierarchies embedded into mainstream society.
I convey the struggle of being an individual in a world of 'the other'. This relationship between the individual and society can conflict and insists that we must define oneself. This complex situation is both protective and harmful and it facinates me how this is inevitably part of the need to belong and be. The inside (individual's 'space') and outside (social space) are separate yet try to relate somehow with difficulty.
I look at the universal experience of words, emotions and interactions, as well as people who feel they lack normalisation and autonomy.
The mind is controlled in so many invisible ways, by existing within an environment and with others... and the only way to connect and converse is to empathise and apply emotion. The only way to eradicate these social labels and standards is to relate on a deeper level with everyone.