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Recently selected as one of Gola's Born In Britain best and brightest 
in thier fine art catagory, take a look -

www.GolaChloeGough.com

"A combination of art and philosophy that questions the traditional representation of human personality has found a new contemporary resolution in Chloe Gough’s works. Chloe is an artist based in Scotland, who graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in Fine art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices in 2009. Since then she studied at the SMFA, Boston and University of Michigan for her Masters of Fine Art.

Her accomplishments include the Donald Dewer Arts Award, David and June Gordon Memorial Trust Award and The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Purchase Prize.
Chloe looks at human figures, their poses, language and characteristics, merging traditional portraiture methods with philosophical context and theory.Her artworks emphasize the importance of body language and details in physical appearance that can easily stay unnoticed. Not giving the face to the viewer, she creates an increased awareness of human gestures, poses and physical expressions.

“By removing the gaze and also perhaps the face, I hope to draw more attention to the details present in posture, pose and physical quirks that appear in a person’s stance,” says Chloe. Using a variety of mediums, primarily painting and printmaking techniques, she reinvents traditional approaches in portraiture, accentuating another physical aspect of human personality.

Her artworks display careful observation of people. She creates portraits by replacing facial features with objects, attempting to find individuality through material representation and to perceive a person as a combination of tangible objects." 

 

Northing Magazine- Article


Article in Northings Art Magazine-

www.Northings.com

"The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture is delighted to announce Chloe Gough as the first artist to be presented in a series of online exhibitions available to see exclusively on rsa.culturelabel.com from October 1st 2012.

The RSA has been working with CultureLabel since the launch of its Art Store in October 2010. It has been a great success, with the RSA selling works by Scottish artists to buyers all over the UK and becoming one of CultureLabel’s best-selling galleries in the process.

Up to now, RSA/CultureLabel has been showcasing works for sale by a selection of RSA members and artists selected from the annual New Contemporaries exhibition, plus the broader RSA Awards Programme. This forthcoming exclusive online exhibition will be the first event to focus solely on one artist. The exhibition will feature original paintings and printmaking. Two short films have been commissioned to give an overview of Chloe’s practice and document the creation of the original prints for sale in the exhibition.

Chloe Gough (b. 1986) first exhibited at the RSA as one of 60 artists selected for the 2010 New Contemporaries exhibition. She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone (Dundee) in 2009 with a BA Hons in Fine Art, Philosophy & Contemporary Art Practices, supplemented this with a Postgraduate Baccalaureate from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and is in the process of completing a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Michigan. She currently lives and works in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Working mostly with ink and acrylic on wood, Chloe creates soft and subtle representations of the human form. Through delicate use of colour, line and tone, she challenges the traditional aspects of portrait painting, with her work often concentrating on a particular area of the body other than the face. Yet each painting evokes a distinct feeling from the viewer, caught by the artist through the pose of the sitter, often engaged in a movement between gestures.

Andrew Goring, Sales & Communications Officer at the RSA:

“This is a truly exciting new development for the RSA. Chloe Gough is a super-talented young artist and CultureLabel are such a forward-thinking company with an international outlook, it’s a real privilege to work with both of them. At the RSA we are committed to this kind of close, ongoing dialogue with artists and our relationship with Chloe is a good example of this. We are already planning similar projects in the future – watch this space!”

Claire Flannery, Art Manager at CultureLabel.com:

“CultureLabel are thrilled to be the exclusive host for the RSA and Chloe Gough’s first major online exhibition. It’s great to have a partner organisation as energised as the RSA and we look forward to working with them on more exhibitions like this.”

The Royal Scottish Academy would like to acknowledge the support of Creative Scotland in helping this project come to fruition."

Upcoming exhibition featured in Art News Scotland magazine-

Upcoming exhibition featured in Art News Scotland magazine-

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First Online Exhibition For Royal Scottish Academy

"Chloe Gough selected for RSA exhibition on CultureLabel.com
The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture is delighted to announce Chloe Gough as the first artist to be presented in a series of online exhibitions available to see exclusively on rsa.culturelabel.com from October 1st 2012.
The RSA has been working with CultureLabel since the launch of its Art Store in October 2010. It has been a great success, with the RSA selling works by Scottish artists to buyers all over the UK and becoming one of CultureLabel’s best-selling galleries in the process.

Up to now, RSA/CultureLabel has been showcasing works for sale by a selection of RSA members and artists selected from the annual New Contemporaries exhibition, plus the broader RSA Awards Programme. 
This forthcoming exclusive online exhibition will be the first event to focus solely on one artist. The exhibition will feature original paintings and printmaking. Two short films have been commissioned to give an overview of Chloe’s practice and document the creation of the original prints for sale in the exhibition. 
Chloe Gough (b. 1986) first exhibited at the RSA as one of 60 artists selected for the 2010 New Contemporaries exhibition. She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone (Dundee) in 2009 with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art, Philosophy & Contemporary Art Practices, supplemented this with a Postgraduate Baccalaureate from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and is in the process of completing a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Michigan. She currently lives and works in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Working mostly with ink and acrylic on wood, Chloe creates soft and subtle representations of the human form. Through delicate use of colour, line and tone, she challenges the traditional aspects of portrait painting, with her work often concentrating on a particular area of the body other than the face. Yet each painting evokes a distinct feeling from the viewer, caught by the artist through the pose of the sitter, often engaged in a movement between gestures.

Andrew Goring, Sales & Communications Officer at the RSA:
“This is a truly exciting new development for the RSA. Chloe Gough is a super-talented young artist and CultureLabel are such a forward-thinking company with an international outlook, it’s a real privilege to work with both of them. At the RSA we are committed to this kind of close, ongoing dialogue with artists and our relationship with Chloe is a good example of this. We are already planning similar projects in the future – watch this space!”
Claire Flannery, Art Manager at CultureLabel.com:
“CultureLabel are thrilled to be the exclusive host for the RSA and Chloe Gough’s first major online exhibition. It’s great to have a partner organisation as energised as the RSA and we look forward to working with them on more exhibitions like this.”
The Royal Scottish Academy would like to acknowledge the support of Creative Scotland in helping this project come to fruition." 

The Skinny Magazine, Scotland - Article

Article in The Skinny magazine -

www.theskinny.com

"A grand and stately building on Edinburgh’s Mound, the Royal Scottish Academy looks every inch the beacon of intellectual brilliance that the term ‘academy’ originally denoted. What you can’t tell from the outside is that these days the RSA is ‘down with the kids,’ playing host to the art stars of the future, most notably in its annual New Contemporaries show.

New graduates from the Scottish art schools are selected on the basis of their degree shows, for many of them their first major exhibition since graduating. With work in every medium from painting to performance, New Contemporaries is superficially similar to a degree show – the key difference being that a panel has selected the cream of the crop to exhibit.

Having had a few months to regroup, consider their work in cold light and firm up their interests, the artists are at some kind of emergent peak, on an exciting precipice. It’s a no-brainer that this show seems a harbinger of new talent.

A case in point is Gray’s graduate Stephen Thorpe, who featured in the show in 2011 and won the RSA New Contemporaries Award and The Skinny Award. Since then he has exhibited widely, including at The Saatchi Gallery in London, as the recipient of the prestigious worldwide competition held by Saatchi Online. His winning work, painted in oils on a massive canvas, shows an interior landscape of a room where an ominous figure appears to be approaching the viewer amid optical illusions that play with your perceptions of space. Typically busy and overworked in both plane and surface, Thorpe’s paintings seem to refer at once to literal everyday life and the abstract.

His recent solo show at Summerhall was titled ‘Once it is in you it never goes away’ – with any luck, an unwitting reference to his continued success? If sales of his work are anything to go by, it seems likely – he has already sold well through the Own Art scheme, including at Gallery Heinzel in Aberdeen. Thorpe now works full-time as an artist as well as moonlighting as an Assistant Curator at Summerhall.

Another raging success of New Contemporaries is Duncan of Jordanstone graduate Chloe Gough, whose show in 2010 was a sell-out. She was quickly snapped up for the RSA’s online Culture Label collection, and two years later, was chosen for their first-ever online exhibition on Culture Label. This included a new series of paintings and prints and two specially commissioned films about the artist and her printmaking process, shot in Peacock Visual Arts, where she created the works.

Borrowing from traditional portraiture and then subtly drawing the viewer away from a prescribed way of looking, Gough’s work is heavily backed up by a strong theoretical process. A graduate of fine art and philosophy, she cites Sartre, Lacan and Barthes among her influences – a weighty roll call that informs but doesn’t burden her works, which appear as light-hearted studies of ordinary bodies in a way more reminiscent of art of the past. “By removing the gaze and also perhaps the face, I hope to draw more attention to the details present in posture, pose and physical quirks that appear in a person’s stance,” says Gough.

One of Culture Label’s best-selling galleries, the RSA offers a great opportunity to get your hands on the work of emerging artists who will fast become household names."