Chloe Caday

Integrating memories of the landscape and objects from Caday’s motherland, ‘Under The Mango Tree’ quietly reflects on the resilience and strength of the mango tree, and its significance as a place of respire, after decades of floods and typhoons in her late grandparents’
home beside Laguna de Bay, Philippines.

Chloe Caday's paintings of the Australian bushland are all painted en plein air at her home in She Oaks, a beautiful locality nestled right beside the Brisbane Ranges National Park in Victoria. Drawing inspiration from her Filipino roots, her practice explores the importance of travel and connection to the land as it signifies the historical, cultural and spiritual connections within place. Caday’s landscapes are an intuitive and refreshing interpretation of her familiar natural surroundings, embracing her creative curiosity and naïve wonder. Her use of gestural mark making is a central technique to her practice – exploring the intricate and rhythmic interplay of sound, light, and form within each intuitive and organic motion of the brush.