For this year’s Residency Programme for Academic and Curatorial Research of Contemporary Greek Art we welcomed Chloe Redston in the Art History direction, from June 1 to July 14, 2024.

Chloe is from London, United Kingdom, and lives and works there. She graduated the MA in History of Art at The Courtauld Instute of Art in June 2023, specialising in ‘Wordplay: Intersections Between the Verbal and Visual c.1870 to the Present.’ Developing on themes surrounding text-image relationships, she developed a particular passion for the poetics of visual art and mark-making processes. Her primary interests, having emerged from this paper and a prior undergraduate degree in Classics (Durham University), culminated in her dissertation, entitled Abstracting the Classics: Receiving Cy Twombly, in which she reconciled the poetic and asemic content of his oeuvre through the methodological framework of classical reception theory.

Chloe Redston was selected by a committee consisting of: Anna Somers Cocks OBE, Founder of the “Arts Newspaper”, Lucy Bradnock, Vice-Dean for Research, The Courtauld, Caroline Levitt, Head of Art History Department, The Courtauld, Elisabeth Plessa, art historian-curator, and Dora Vasilakou, Managing Director, The Sotiris Felios Collection.

Chloe spent 6 weeks in Athens, where she engaged in numerous meetings with collection artists and leading art professionals living and working in Greece, while also visiting museums and art openings. She had also the chance to engage in extended conversations with Sotiris Felios. Based on her proposal, a bespoke programme of visits, discussions and exhibition tours was designed, centering around the notions of memory, identity and Greekness between the past and the present.

Chloe’s experience will culminate in a written essay entitled “Towards a Definition of the Contemporary Greek Identity in Art” that will be published in digital and print form at the end of September.

Curator of the programme: Dora Vasilakou
The programme is supported by The other Arcadia Foundation and the Greek Ministry of Culture.