Chloë Ashby
Author and Arts Journalist at Freelance
Author of FAMILY FRIENDS (coming 2026), SECOND SELF (2023) and WET PAINT (2022). Words in the Times, Guardian, Spectator, TLS et al. COLOURS OF ART (2022).
Articles
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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | Chloë Ashby
In a self-portrait from 1902, Gwen John meets us with an unwavering gaze, pursed lips and a slight tilt of her head. Her auburn hair is tidily drawn back into a simple bun, and she wears a crimson blouse with a velvet choker pinned beneath a brooch at the base of her long, slender neck. Her younger brother Augustus (she called him Gus), who began work on his own self-portrait the same year, shares her almond-shaped eyes and strong nose.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Chloë Ashby
It is a bright and sunny day in Somerset, and out on the neatly mown lawn at Hauser & Wirth, Niki de Saint Phalle’s voluptuous Nanas (“girls”) are positively sparkling. There are three of them (a nod to Botticelli’s three graces): one silver, one black, one white, all made from polyester jazzed up with colourful mosaic and shimmering mirrors. She has captured them mid-twirl, arms tossed in the air like they just don’t care, legs kicked out at jaunty angles.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Chloë Ashby
Ten years ago, when the Scottish painter Caroline Walker was in her early30s, she noticed something happening to her artist friends who were having babies. “They were suddenly taken less seriously,” she says. At the time, she didn’t have children of her own, and she was sure that if she ever did, her life as a parent would remain separate from her art.
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1 month ago |
thespectator.com | Chloë Ashby
It is remarkable the web Katie Kitamura can spin around a scene as simple as a woman joining a man for lunch. His name is Xavier. We don’t know her name, but we do know she’s a successful actress. He’s beautiful, almost half her age, and she’s aware of how that must look to the other diners, the waiter hovering at her elbow, and her husband, who inexplicably enters after their food arrives before exiting in a hurry.
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1 month ago |
spectator.co.uk | Chloë Ashby
It is remarkable the web Katie Kitamura can spin around a scene as simple as a woman joining a man for lunch. His name is Xavier. We don’t know her name, but we do know she’s a successful actress. He’s beautiful, almost half her age, and she’s aware of how that must look to the other diners, the waiter hovering at her elbow, and her husband, who inexplicably enters after their food arrives before exiting in a hurry.
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Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely reunite! My review for @guardianculture https://t.co/RAtjedbL9L
If you ask me, there’s nobody painting modern motherhood quite like Caroline Walker. We chatted ahead of her new show at @HepworthGallery, which focuses on the constellation of mostly female workers providing support during childbirth and early-years care https://t.co/oDvbfuouYa
RT @cesca_peacock: charmed to learn that in early modern french texts on childbirth & churching, the placenta is often called a “gâteau”