Matriarch
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About This Work
In *Fallows Matriarch*, Chris distils the commanding presence of a female figure into a poised, contemporary icon—at once intimate portrait and cultural archetype. The artist’s approach privileges structure and surface: assured mark-making, calibrated tonal shifts, and a considered handling of texture that creates depth without sentimentality. Subtle passages of erasure and reworking suggest memory and lineage, allowing the composition to read as both personal testimony and collective inheritance. The work’s title frames “matriarch” as a site of authority and care, echoing current conversations around representation, resilience, and intergenerational narratives in contemporary art. *Fallows Matriarch* offers collectors a psychologically charged, museum-quality statement anchored in figurative tradition yet unmistakably of the present.
Zebra One Gallery
Contemporary Art • Hampstead, London
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