Upcoming Exhibition: Streets of Balmain 3-7 September 2025

Streets of Balmain

An exhibition of recent work
by Chloë Waddell
Art Gallery on Darling: 307 Darling St Balmain
3rd to 7th September 2025, 10am to 5pm each day

Chloë begun her artistic career in Rozelle at the previous campus of Sydney College of the Arts at Callan Park whilst living down the road in Balmain. Having been a resident of Brisbane for the past 10 years, returning to Balmain to exhibit her work of the local streets, represents a coming home for Chloë. She has also explored these streets in three previous exhibitions at Art Gallery on Darling in 2018, 2022 & 2024.

It has been 13 years since Chloë first started her cityscape series, capturing the essence of the places she has travelled and exhibited. Starting as an exploration of Manhattan’s architecture, this series now includes hundreds of artworks from around the world: Berlin, Montreal, London, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra.

These artworks all begin in the same way, wandering the streets with a camera, capturing the interesting corners and collections of angles, putting together compositions of lines, shapes and colour.
Back in the studio, these photos are transformed into multilayered pieces, Chloë traces the important lines of the photos, adds watercolour, acrylic paint and collage, finishing the artwork with a coat of resin which both soaks into and surrounds the artwork, protecting and encasing it.

Alongside her collection of mixed media wall pieces, Chloë has created a range of jewellery describing the local streets: a series of portraits of buildings and trees hand drawn onto plywood and matched with handmade sterling silver frames. Her odd pairs of earrings are a signature for Chloë where the picture begins on one earring and carries across to the next.