70s Baby | Chantal de Kock

Chantal is an Australian artist who grew up in many outback country towns throughout Australia in an era where outdoor play was the mode of life.

She now calls the Gippsland region, with it's beautiful natural landscapes home.

Chantal is interested in how we live on the earth in a way that reduces our impact and cares about this in both her work practices and the way she lives.

Chantal often uses natural ochres and pigments that are native to the places that hold deep meaning for her.

Chantal believes we are of nature and as such should work to live in harmony with it. In it and of it rather than trying to control it.

By using loose gestural marks she hopes to convey this sense of letting go of control and allowing ourselves to be within the cycles and imperfect systems of nature.

Chantal's response portrays the importance of the lanscape in our physical and inner lives.

Rather than reproducing specific scenes, she seeks to convey the sense of being in the landscape, thereby engaging memory and imagination.

Her work is somewhere in-between figuration and abstraction, between what we see and what we feel.

"The feeling of barefeet as we sit on the grass.”

“Memories of childhood and summer sunshine.”

“The warmth of the sun on our heads and the soft sweet touch of baby skin against my own.”

“Nursing babes and the colour of summer.”

“A child of the 70's now nursing babes of my own."

Chantal de Kock, 2024.

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