ABOUT

Based in rural Wales,UK, Chisara Vidale (b.2000) is an emerging artist whose work explores themes surrounding interspecies kinship, queerness, hybridity and imagined futures. Although her practice centres around painting in watercolour and oils, she frequently works across textiles and sculptural installations, blurring the boundaries between her painted and three-dimensional pieces. Vidale’s work is filled with vivid colour and rich symbolism inspired by her interests in folklore, myth and land-based spiritualities of the UK and her ancestral lineages in West Africa. The painted works visualise a semi-utopian world, without the physical boundaries between the artist and nature, free from heteronormative and anthropocentric ideals, whilst installations allow the viewer to pass though, and experience these realms.

Vidale is interested in dismantling binary modes of thinking, picking apart perceived boundaries between the self and the ‘other’. Humans morph into snail-like creatures, webbed feet and mycelial tendrils reach from them towards luminous skies. Often she uses her own bodily form as reference, reflecting on her experiences of connection, allowing her to insert her brown queer body into spaces where they are often not seen. She also de-centres gender in her work, painting genderless beings resting, exploring and inhabiting dreamy and surreal landscapes. Despite her dyslexia, Vidale’s research often centres around the work of writers and poets like Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe, she listens to their work whilst painting or sewing, allowing ideas to feed into her subconscious and intuitively influence the themes in the work.

Vidale is interested in the intersections between ecology, spirituality, eroticism and playfulness, an approach that influences her use of diverse materials in sculpture and textiles, and the varied narratives in her paintings. She spends extensive time walking in and observing the rugged coastal landscape around her, alongside gardening and tending to the smallholding where she lives. Her practice also interrogates the nature of these different experiences; submission to the wildness of the wider landscape, the tender nurturing of plants, and foraging in wild spaces. Her visual language is heavily influenced by the practices of artists such as Hilma af Klint, Agnes Pelton and she is constantly inspired by the work of many contemporary artists such as Anna Perach and Emma Mendelssohn Talbot.

Exhibitions:

'Embodiment in Nature' Otherlandz x Hive Broadworks, 2025
‘CRITICAL EDGE #5’ The Handbag Factory x Critical Edge Collective, collaborative group show 2025
‘Worlds within Worlds’ Blue Nude x London Fashion Week, duo show x Laurence Watchorn 2025
'In the World, Girls' Visions of Nature' Girl Museum online exhibition 2025
The Other Art Fair x RIOT SOUP International Women's day 2025
'Daydream', Silver Can Art, 2025
'Daydream' , RIOT SOUP, Half Moon Theatre 2025

‘Passing Through’ Solo Show FUSEBOX 2024
'Beep Painting Prize' Exhibition Wales 2024
‘Seven for a Secret’ ADL Productions, J/M Gallery London, 2024
‘Situational’ , non Foundation, Safehouse 2, Maverick Projects
Phoney Art Collective ‘Open Call’ Gallery Lock In 2024
ESOP ‘Art Matters’ End of year show, Mile End Art Pavilion 2024
Pistil Collective ‘Water, Oil, Honey’ Crypt Gallery London 2024
Phoney Art Collective ‘Open Call’ Gallery Lock In 2024

'Helios' Online Exhibition with Fern and Glade 2023
Art for Charity Collective ‘Summer Pop-Up’ 2023
‘Small and Mighty’ curated by Ladies Drawing Club and Louise Fitzjohn 2023
Art on a PostCard War Child Auction, PV at Soho Revue London 2023
‘Synergy’ Solo Show at Jupiter AM and The Hub Cafe London 2023
Anew Collective Edit 2023
Art and People ‘Precious Postcards’ 2023

Art on a Postcard Summer Auction, PV at The Other Art Fair London 2022
Book Launch “It’s About Time” 2022
Glyndebourne Tour Art Competition Online Exhibition September 2021
Barcelona Contemporary June-July 2021
‘Exhibition Touch’ Group Show July 2021
Refresh Art Award Online Gallery 2021-2022
Babylon Arts Online Showcase ‘I Matter’ May 2021

Interview and Book Features

Perediza, Woven Narratives: Blue Nude’s Fusion of Art, Identity, and Sustainability 2025
'Beep Painting Prize' Publication 2024
'INTERVIEW WITH CHISARA VIDALE' Pleb Magazine 2024
‘Heart of Hale’ Film Interview 2023
The Responsa Foundation ‘Artist Spotlight’ 2023
Poetry and Artwork Feature in ‘Its About Time’ , Book released 2022
Double Page Feature in the first edition of ‘SteelJackdaw’ Art magazine 2021

Prizes

Freelands Foundation x A N artists grant 2025
Longlisted Kew Gardens Young Artist Prize 2023
One of eight winners, ‘This Difference’ Competition, Responsa Foundation 2021
Shortlisted Glyndebourne Tour Art Competition 2021
Shortlisted for ‘The Lurner Prize 2021’

Residencies

The Womb residency x The Lab supported by Bow Arts 2024

Facilitation

Eco Hub Aber 2026
Createspace Wales 2026