Angie & Chantel de Latour ‘Perspectives: Landscape and Still Life’

Chantel and Angie de Latour are Melbourne-based artists who have joined forces in a duo show featuring landscapes and still lifes. As mother and daughter, the common denominator is a shared experience of place and the parameters that define it.

Angie de Latour’s work is held in private collections in Australia and overseas. Since moving to Melbourne in 2001, she has been a finalist in multiple art prizes, which include the Mosman Art Prize, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award, the Tacit Still Life Prize and the 2023 Salon des Refusés, Wynne selection. Angie holds a Master of Fine Art and a Master of Visual Art from the Victorian College of the Arts, and a Bachelor of Design from Swinburne University, where she taught for 8 years.

Although Angie works across a range of genres, which include landscape and portraiture, still life is the current focus of her painting practice. The process of choosing and arranging objects to paint has become a ritual and she is interested in the particularity of these choices: which vase, flower, light source? These works focus on the rounded, organic forms of vases, bottles and cups, and their function as containers for flowers from the garden.

Chantel de Latour completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts (2011) and a Graduate Certificate in Art History at the University of Melbourne (2018). Chantel has been the recipient of the Gary Fell Award and the Shelmerdine Art Award from the Victorian College of the Arts. She was a finalist in the Lethbridge Art Award in 2021 and the National Emerging Art Prize in 2021 and 2022.

Chantel’s current work continues to explore the demarcation between public and private spaces, seeking out pools and dwellings as subjects.

This series of paintings explores the transitory effects and atmosphere of shifting light as it meanders across these secluded landscapes, accentuating the colours of heat, shade and reflection.