Chloe Jones

Chloe is a proud First Nations Yorta Yorta artist and freelance creative, and more recently an emerging writer and curator based in Naarm (Melbourne). She is currently completing a Bachelor of Art History & Curation at Monash University, which has allowed her to expand her knowledge and opportunities in the contemporary Indigenous Australian arts sector. Chloe has been a member of Kaiela Arts since 2020 and currently holds a position as a board member, the Treasurer, and artist. She has also specialised in the contemporary Indigenous commercial sector for the last few years, working specifically within the secondary market at a leading commercial gallery in Melbourne, D’Lan Contemporary, gaining valuable market insights into the Contemporary Indigenous art market. Additionally, Chloe has engaged in commercial collaborations with various brands, both in Australia and internationally. Chloe believes that these valuable opportunities and insights offer her the chance to help educate other fellow First Nations artists and creatives and hopefully give them the opportunity to have more agency and self-determination to become successful artists and leaders within this industry. 

Chloe’s art practice is often research based relying on archival material and records. Chloe says: Through my practice I hope to confront head-on the poignant realities inherent to my identity as a mixed-race individual of Southern-Eastern Aboriginal descent. I grapple with the enduring consequences of past injustices inflicted upon my communities, recognising that certain facets of cultural knowledge may forever elude my grasp. Consequently, in my latest body of work, I consciously restrict myself to drawing inspiration solely from a select few culturally resonant symbols and motifs that have endured within my community’s collective memory. Deliberately, I employ a technique wherein I fill the interstices between these symbols, creating bold, delineated shapes reminiscent of a blanket concealing dormant cultural knowledge.