Chanel Sohier
Artist’s Statement
This series of artworks is an ongoing and developing investigation of the poetic potential of composition, mark-making and colouration. Each artwork explores the deeply felt nature of emotion, utilising a constructed landscape to give form to esoteric and complex feelings.
Each artwork is approached like a poem – curated – from the endless possibility of choices to hew an artifact for contemplation.
Biography
Chanel Sohier is a Sicilian Australian artist based in Sydney NSW. She graduated from the University of NSW Art and Design in 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a Major in Painting and Drawing.
Influences
Her influences include American Modernism which bravely and intentionally looked away from figuration to explore the human psyche and the Metaphysical Painters who gleaned spiritual dimensions from the everyday circumstances we may find ourselves in.
Exhibitions
Watt Space Group Exhibition Newcastle 2010
Chalk the Walk Arts Festival Pyrmont 2012
Gosford Art Prize 2012
COFA Graduation Exhibition 2014
Online feature Gallery Raye 2021
Art/Edit Magazine Feature 2021
Arcadia Street Gallery, Group Show, 2021
Brunswick Street Gallery, Small Artworks Prize, 2022
Showing the single artwork
