Chloë Marsden playfully examines intimate moments of domesticity within the home setting. Her work speaks in the tone of surreal memoir and is a behind-closed-doors experience both literally and figuratively. Marsden’s work is as much about her experience as a mother, as it is about the relationship with her own mother and touches upon maternal ambivalence and paradox in a wider frame work. Her images collage ‘lived’ experience and inner dialog by drawing directly from the landscape of her home and observe invisible home-labour and the thresholds between private and public spaces. She has an interdisciplinary practice utilising mediums to find the best translation for each project.

Marsden was Born in London and immigrated to Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2005. In 2013 Marsden received a Bachelor of Fine Art (hons) from Massey University Wellington. She gained her New Zealand citizenship in 2022 and lives with her partner and son in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington. Marsden is currently in ‘residence’ and works from a studio in her home.

Marsden has artwork in private collections in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the UK and has exhibited work in Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, Edinburgh and London. Recent work has been exhibited online by UK based Spilt Milk Gallery and Maternal Art magazine. Marsden has contributed writing to Lenka Clayton’s (Artists Residency in Motherhood founder) book, Mothers’ Days, exhibited in Labor: Motherhood and Art in 2020 at the Museum of New Mexico and contributed to Hettie Judah’s 2023 book ‘How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents)’. She runs an Art Club for children, seniors and adults with learning disabilities where she lives in Island Bay on the South Coast of Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington.