Chloe Henderson

My name is Chloe Henderson. I am an Edinburgh-based interdisciplinary artist.

I am a Masters graduate of the Birmingham School of Jewellery with Distinction in Jewellery and Related Products in 2018. I previously trained as a jeweller at The Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, and graduated with a Bachelors of Design Honours in 2014.

I am an illustrator, filmmaker, zine-maker, and jeweller. I make art inspired by the natural world, mythological creatures, faerytales, nerd culture, and the radical idea that humans should be kind to every living thing.

The work that I developed throughout my MA centred around expanding the jewellery object to create Chimeric human-animal hybrid costumes on a large scale. I became enamoured with the medium of film, and combined these pieces with their human actors to form characters who captured ridiculous, surreal, fantastical stories that were told through filmed mockumentaries.

My portfolio of illustration is also inspired by my penchant for the fantastical, and I often feature strange creatures within my highly patterned portraiture. I developed my drawing process through the metal-etching within my DJCAD degree show collection. The crisp black and white lines h...

2017-2018 The Birmingham School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University
Masters Degree with Distinction in Jewellery and Related Products

2010-2014 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
2:1 Honours degree in Bachelor of Design: Jewellery and Metal Design

1997-2010 George Watson's College, Edinburgh

22nd April 2020 Virtual Community-Made Cinema Viewing Party, Glasgow Zine Library

7th February-1st March 2020 GENERATORprojects Members' Show 2020, Dundee

14th-17th March 2019 Oscillations Exhibition with Polyphonous at McArthur & McArthur Studios as part of Munich Jewellery Week 2019, Germany

4th-10th September 2018 Oscillations Exhibition at The Birmingham School of Art

20th-30th April 2018 MAction at The Birmingham School of Jewellery

4th-10th September Oscillations Exhibition at The Birmingham School of Art

17th May 2017 ‘100 years of OUI’ exhibition at Kimberly Clark

4th-9th March 2016 Where Our Minds Are Now: IWD Exhibition at Tin Roof Collective, Dundee

11th October 2014 Dundee Wearable Arts

25th- 28th June 2014 New Designers 2014, London

16th 24th May 2014 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design 2014 Degree Show, University of Dundee

14th February 2014 Valentine's In the Corridor at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee​

26th April 2012 "In the Corridor" A Jewellery and Metal Design Exhibition at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee

June 2010 George Watson's College Final Year's Work Exhibition