ERTHWRX24 - Linda Chant

ERTHWRX24 is an inaugural multi-day community event involving a series of panel-talks, exhibitions, presentations, performances, installations and workshops presented during National Science Week 2024 . The program focus will be on Environmentalism delivered through the nexus of science, arts, culture, social, historical, geo-political and activist discourse.

Linda Chant uses mediated images and objects, to develop works of uncertainty, fragility, and unsettling beauty. She finds inspiration in memory, language, Art history, found imagery and objects, layering them with paint, pencil, fabric, plaster, adding, subtracting until a new way of seeing is revealed. This unstructured method requires intuition and trust in the process.
Participating in TCP, Cave Urban workshop, where invasive weeds were used to construct a pod form, Chant shifted her thinking toward the disciplines of design, architecture, and engineering. 

The pod became a visual metaphor for a vessel. She found images of Gothic Architecture reiterated the symmetry, balance, repetition and linear decoration found in the pod. Still Life Genre Painting, plump and drunk with exotic flowers, prompted associations with introduced plants and floristry.

Chant has produced drawings of imagined vessels asking the viewer to imagine what they may hold and consider ideas of containment and protection. This work sits seamlessly alongside her current practice, in fact nourishes it.
Go HERE to view professional development workshop mentored by Cave Urban in early 2024 attended by local artists contributing influences in development of this work.