CHLOE REGAN
CHLOE REGAN
ABOUT
"Drawing makes you see things CLEARER, and CLEARER and CLEARER still, until your eyes ache." David Hockney
Through drawing, Chloé Regan explores the potential of sketching. Her drawing takes the form of reportage by documenting in and around a subject. Her sketches are made up of essential lines and marks.
Chloé explores the ability of the sketch to capture a first-person point of view, including one’s observations, past memories and future imaginings simultaneously.
She explores the potential of the specific materials that the sketch involves -the paper and the pencil – and the connection between these materials and their abilities to capture intuitiveness, immediateness and directness. She sketches continuously from life and her prolific sketchbooks capture reflections, verve and experience. Chloé's sketches are autonomous, however these drawings often inspire narratives which interrogate life.
Reportage illustration is a significant inspiration and forms a relevant context for her interest in observing and reflecting on the world around her. Chloé’s work explores the sketch as a contemporary idiom of drawing and the possibilities of narrative. She works on location from observation, from film stills and her imagination to fill her sketchbooks.
Chloé Regan works both individually and on collaborative commissions with INK, an illustration collective formed with two other RCA graduates. With Rachel Gannon and Fumie Kamijo, INK's clients include The Big Draw, Pick Me Up, Topshop and the Natural History Museum, London. She has exhibited at Tenderpixel Gallery, London, produced a commission for 'Critical Dictionary's Exhibition' at Black Dog Publishing, London and taught drawing at Central Saint Martin's Summer School as well as working as a visiting lecturer.
In 2014 she was Artist in Residence at the Holburne Museum, Bath and delivered a presentation of her sketchbooks at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.In 2013, her sketchbook was among the prize winners of the Rabley Drawing Competition. She delivered a research paper at the Spatialising Illustration Symposium, which was subsequently published by Varoom Lab Journal and Reportager in 2013.
Chloé graduated from the Royal College of Art in Communication Art and Design (Illustration) and gained academic experience in a number of art schools including London College of Fashion, Arts University Bournemouth, and the University of the West of England.
She has experience of teaching international students at several art schools, including the International Preparation for Fashion course at London College of Fashion. Her academic and artistic interests focus on drawing, pedagogy and visual communication.
Chloé is an Executive Committee member of the Material Encounters Research Cluster at Birmingham City University. She co-founded the Drawing Research Group at the University of the West of England who she continues to collaborate with in-conjunction with BCU.
Chloé’s drawings have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Rabley Drawing Centre and the Museum of East Asian Art. Her drawings have been selected for the Rabley Drawing Centre’s Sketch competition in 2014 and 2017.
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