Arlette

London-based painter Arlette creates oil paintings, lino prints, and digital art.

Her works centre on the complexities of motherhood as a social, cultural, and psychological phenomenon.

She graduated from Camberwell College of Arts MA Fine Art Digital in 2019 (distinction) where she also earned the university’s Liberalis Prize.

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She has exhibited as part of a group (Camberwell space Gallery, FiliA Conferences 2018 & 2017, Holy Art Fair London 2023), and in a solo exhibition at la Galerie du PopUp! in September 2022.

She has been teaching drawing methods on line and IRL since 2020.​

Discover more on Instagram @arletteartist

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'I aim at building an alternate story of motherhood - a truthful one of sorts - an honest one, at least, drawing from classical and Christian Middle-Eastern and European visual influences, and reflecting on both my experience as a mother, and that of my ancestry. 

 I invite viewers to contemplate the complex story of the "mother thing"* , and to reflect on its pain, guilt, and immeasurable love.'

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*a phrase coined by the amazing Cherine Fahd: “an imagery and aspirational figure overdetermined by representation. She (the mother thing) wavers between mystical stories from Christianity to tired clichés of advertising and Disney make believe.”

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