VCA ART 2020

Chelsea Arnott

Honours

I am interested in the performance of self; in its slipperiness, its fragmentation, its sincerity and its failure. My work operates as a network of feelings and colours that interact and contradict one another. Both the written and unwritten have a place in the work, as I reflect on gestures of love and queer cultures of intimacy. I problematise the investment in truth within autobiographical work and test out cliché as a form that can provide safety through collective experience.

Chelsea Arnott, *Loosey Goosey*, digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, Loosey Goosey, digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, *Maybe U Tried 2 Call*, digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, Maybe U Tried 2 Call, digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, *Did U Send Me Flowers*, digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, Did U Send Me Flowers, digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, *Strawberry*, mixed media on paper, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, Strawberry, mixed media on paper, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, *At the End of the Night and In the Mornin’*, digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, At the End of the Night and In the Mornin’, digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, *Untitled (Arm Reaching)*, digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, Untitled (Arm Reaching), digital image, 2020
Chelsea Arnott, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Chelsea Arnott, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Chelsea Arnott, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Chelsea Arnott, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.

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