artist stament and cv.

Artist stament

My name is Chloe-Anne baxter (I prefer Smith). I am a twenty-two-year-old Middlesborough-based, expressionist artist, who is exploring the relationship between art and therapy and putting an expressionism spin on it. I look at concepts like art therapy, Body dysmorphia, mental health and also my own personal issues like me being disabled and having multiple sclerosis. I create work on controversial topics but also creates work out of trauma and I believe that art is very therapeutic and is a powerful healing tool. I want my work to show that to people and i also want to share what art can do for people, when it comes to mental health and healing. I have a passion for art therapy and what it can do for people, and I wants to go into that in the future and I also wants my work to help people in whatever way it can. I’m very interested in art therapy and the use of it for the trauma and other issues such as mental health and physical. Within my artwork I have been exploring the use of art therapy and how therapeutic it can be and have put that to use with recant work. however I also want my artwork to show that it’s okay to talk about trauma and that trauma is a spectrum, trauma is whatever affects the individual mentally or physically. I want my artwork to show that it’s okay to talk about trauma and it’s okay to let all that trauma out, learn how to self-embrace and love yourself also to have self-acceptance despite all of whatever troubles you have. I’m a big believer in connecting on an emotional level with my audience, using my gestural and expressive figurative paintings. I want to show peaople that art can heal and it is a healthly and productive out let for peaple.

Artist cv

My Most recent to least recant exhibitions

Fianl Outset upcoming exhibition ( its at the northen school of art, I am exhibiting a series of work called Betrayal of mind and eyes! 01.06.2023 - 09.06.2023
Collective exhibition (It was in Stockton library and was with marra collective. I exhibited my piece A Woman's body deserves a chocie! This was from the end of June to the end of July 2022)
Towards a feminist future conference (I exhibited my piece called the era of women. Part of the marra group exhibition, it was at the northern school of art. 06.04.2022)
Outset exhibition (I exhibited my piece called spiked and I was the fundraising team leader. 09.03.2022- 11.03. 2022)
Outset fundraising exhibition (I exhibited my pieces, oh you don’t look sick and brain fog. It was held at the northern school of art. 22.11.2021- 10.12.2021)
Access to HE summer show (I exhibited my piece called Don’t forget the colour. it was held digitally. 02.07.2020-04.07.2020
Level 3 art and design summer show (I exhibited my piece called perception at the northern school of art. 13.06.2019-15.06.2019)

Education most recant to least recant

Fine Art BA honour course at the northern school of art. (3-year course. 2020- to present)
Access to HE course at the northern school of art. (1 year course, got a distinction 2019-2020)
Leve 3 art and design at the northern school of art. (3-year course. Got a merit. 2017-2019)

Experience most recant to least recant

I have done some fundraising for the final outset exhibtion ( bake sale, I did a list of allergerns, ect.)
I did Modelling for Debbie Todd
I was Fundraising team leader of outset (bakes sales, tombola and a fundraising exhibition. At the northern school of art)
Created work for Hartlepool winter festival. (at the northern school of art in second year of level 3 art and design.
I have done two willow workshop within the northern school of art. (the level 3 art and design course did two work shops with a group of school children)

photo done by debbietoddphotographs