Chantal Joffe
Maggie's Song, 2024
£600
A limited edition lithograph by Chantal Joffe, exclusive to House of Voltaire. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition Size
50
Dimensions
56.5 x 45.5 cm
Finishing
Lithograph on Paper
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Chantal Joffe, 'Big blonde in red dress', 2012 (detail). Courtesy of Victoria Miro.
About The Artwork
Chantal Joffe is a London-based artist known for her intimate portraits of women and girls. These portraits often have a distorted yet carefully considered air about them, expressing emotional themes and a sensitivity to the subject. This traditional lithographic edition depicts the artist's daughter Esme playing guitar in their living room, and takes its name from one of Esme's songs. The soft wash of blue-grey tones combined with the fluidity of Joffe's mark-making builds a familiar sense of intimate domesticity, and imbues the image with the musicality of the scene. This print has been made especially on the occasion of Studio Voltaire's 30th Anniversary. Throughout the anniversary year, a series of limited editions by leading international artists will be released to raise important funds for Studio Voltaire's artistic and community programmes.
About Chantal Joffe
Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe lives and works in London. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and was awarded the Royal Academy Wollaston Prize in 2006. Joffe has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (2023-2024); The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (2022); Koohouse Museum, Yangpyong, Korea (2022); The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2021); The Foundling Museum, London, UK (2020); Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2020); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2018); The Lowry, Salford, UK (2018); Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2018, 2017); National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík (2016); National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (2015); Jewish Museum, New York, USA (2015); Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK (2015); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2014–2015); Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2013–2014); MODEM, Hungary (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2011); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA (2009); MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK (2007); Galleri KB, Oslo, Norway (2005) and Bloomberg Space, London, UK (2004)
Her work is in numerous institutional and private collections, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA; Detroit Institute of Arts, USA; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
In 2017 Joffe was commissioned to create a major public work for the Elizabeth line in London titled A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel, on view at Whitechapel Elizabeth line station.