Chloe Dewe Mathews
Chloe Joan Dewe Mathews (born 1982) is an English documentary photographer based in St Leonards-on-Sea. She is known for ambitious projects that can take years to complete and for aiming to connect the past with the present.
Her work often takes years to finish and looks for how history shapes today. One of her best-known projects is Shot at Dawn, which documents sites in France and Belgium where around 1,000 soldiers from Britain, France and Belgium were executed during World War I. The book was published in 2014 and the work has been shown at Tate Modern and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
In 2018, In Search of Frankenstein was exhibited at the British Library. This project uses the story of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the climate crisis of the Year Without a Summer to explore environmental and social issues today. She developed related ideas during a 2016 residency at the Verbier 3-D Foundation in Switzerland, an experience that also connects to the Frankenstein theme.
She has also created a long series called Thames Log about the many ways people relate to the River Thames, and Caspian, a walk around the Caspian Sea through Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan.
Public collections hold her work, including the British Council, the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, and the Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust.
Early life and education: Dewe Mathews grew up near Hammersmith Bridge and studied fine art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.
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