Chloe Tizzard
My work is concerned with the poetics of everyday spaces, the domestic, the urban and the personal, examining the often overlooked moments of the home and other local environments. I create minimalist sculptural forms, often painted and sometimes textile, that investigate meanings that come from the isolation and re-presentation of objects in new contexts.
This work was created in the context of COVID-19 which saw the restriction of individuals and whole communities to their homes and so investigates the remembrance of forgotten domestic spaces. The work uses cotton and plaster to fossilise mundane rituals performed in the home. Taken out of the context of the house and presented in isolation, this work prompts the consideration of what we miss in the moment-to-moment familiarity of domestic life. Through the presentation of dried cotton in this new way, the process of washing and drying clothes is reimagined as a shared ceremony and significant, although forgotten, constant in our daily lives.
Chloe Tizzard 2020
Objects of Desire, plaster,nylon thread
Continuous Recollection of Faces, silicone
Chloe successfully contrasts soft and hard properties simultaneously; creating an extreme counterbalance between oppositional elements of appearance and texture. The viewer feels perplexed and disorientated when questioning their own experience and understanding as what appears soft, reveals itself to be the complete opposite. No matter how apparent the rough and hard surface becomes, the texture continues to appear so soft and delicate, with a calming cream tone that the viewer finds themselves wanting to trust its fragile form, as they are allured by the deceitful nature of the work, and its creases that flows gently in a whirling direction; hypnotising the viewer.
Lucy Wilde 2020
Scrunched, plaster and cotton