Chel King
‘Feather & Fang’ 2026. Oil on wood in antique frame; 2 frames: 60cm x 45cm. Set of antique brass scales: 8cm x 8cm Plinth Display: 20cm tall x roughly 35cm wide.
Artist statement
Feather & Fang explores relationships in nature on Erringhi country where I live and paint. I often focus on ecology of place and love to explore the interconnection of living things. For this body of work I’ve concentrated on the relationship between predator and prey.
I research for my artworks by sitting in the landscape I’m painting from and observing behaviours, colours, movement, relationships and how it feels to be connected to this environmental web.
This attention to detail is aesthetically portrayed through oil painting, allowing me to capture a likeness of my observations plus freedom of movement and artistic interpretation.
The relationships within nature from mycelium to fungal decay, birth to death, the hunter and the hunted, are a constant source of inspiration for me. An elaborate web of seething undulations of experience, constantly changing and shifting.
Photographs: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
91É«ÇéƬ School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
