Chantal Joffe hosts fundraising event for the Contemporary Art Society

Monday 4 November 2024 

Artist Chantal Joffe hosted a fundraising event in North London, with an outstanding committee and guest list including: 

Nicola Blake, Caroline Douglas, Sarah Griffin, Emma Goltz, India James, Anthony & Sophie Kingsley (Committee Chair), Eva Langret, Clare McKeon, Suling Mead, Houston & Felicia Morris, Francis Outred, Tim & Andrew Pirrie-Franks, Varvara Roza, James Sevier, Blake Shorthouse, Robert Suss & Cathy Wills. 

Guests were welcomed to the artist’s private studio in North London for a kindly donated mini-Moët champagne reception and ceramic painting led by Chantal and Zebra Ceramics, catered by Blo Deady. Each guest was gifted a signed apron and were invited to paint on either a mug or plate which will be fired to take home as a memento of the evening. Guests were then invited to join dinner at Bellanger, Islington where Contemporary Art Society Director, Caroline Douglas, introduced Chantal Joffe and writer & curator Hettie Judah for an insightful In Conversation by candlelight. On display were two of eight unique watercolour works entitled Self-Portraits, Beacon Hill, 2024, specially created and gifted to the CAS on occasion of this fundraising event. 

Previous Artist’s Tables have been hosted by Glenn Brown, Jeremy Deller, Edmund de Waal, Gilbert & George, Antony Gormley, Isaac Julian, Michael Landy & Gillian Wearing, Haroon Mirza, Grayson Perry, Thomas J Price, Tai Shani, Conrad Shawcross, Do Ho Suh and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. 

The Contemporary Art Society has acquired many of Joffe’s works, including three for The New Art Gallery Walsall in 2016 and Bella in a Vest, 2016, for Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens in 2019.

Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe lives and works in London. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and was awarded the Royal Academy Wollaston Prize in 2006. Joffe has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (2023-2024); The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (2022); Koohouse Museum, Yangpyong, Korea (2022); The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2021); The Foundling Museum, London, UK (2020); Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2020); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2018); The Lowry, Salford, UK (2018); Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2018, 2017); National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík (2016); National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (2015); Jewish Museum, New York, USA (2015); Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK (2015); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2014–2015); Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2013–2014); MODEM, Hungary (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2011); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA (2009); MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK (2007); Galleri KB, Oslo, Norway (2005) and Bloomberg Space, London, UK (2004). Her work is in numerous institutional and private collections, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA; Detroit Institute of Arts, USA; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Joffe has created a major public work for the Elizabeth line in London titled A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel, on view at Whitechapel Elizabeth line station.