Artist CV
Artist's statement
(b 1988ZA. Lives and works in London)
Chapman’s paintings deal with the nostalgia of urban areas and the significance of places in transition. These changing spaces evoke feelings of wistfulness: vague ideas of regret or longing. “I convey these uncanny memories in my paintings with a mix of abstraction and figuration,” he says, “I like to think of my compositions as straddling a line between a place that is both evocative because it is recognisable, but unsettling because the place or the memory of it can’t be pinned down.”Solo exhibitions
- 2017
- GARAGE: a visual taxonomy of Johannesburg, Art Hub, London
Group exhibitions
- 2019
- Fronteer Open, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield
- Superette, PADA Studios, Barreiro
- 2012
- Mistakes, 50 Canterbury Street, Cape Town
- 2011
- This Must Be The Place, iArt Gallery, Cape Town
- 2010
- I Can Never Sleep on Sundays, Michaelis Graduate Exhibition, Cape Town
- A One Night Affair, A WORD OF ART, Cape Town
- 2009
- Proof of Life, VANSA, Cape Town
Awards & residencies
- 2020
- Turps Off Site Programme, London
- 2019
- PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
- 2010
- Judy Steinberg Award for painting, Michaelis School of Fine Art
Press & publications
- 2020
- In conversation with Saskia Fleishman for PADA's Long Range Studio Visits
- 2017
- Interview with Hazel Brown for Discovering Tottenham
Collections
- 2010
- University of Cape Town
Education
- 2010
- BA Fine Arts (Hons), Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT