Lalita Chant

Biography

Lalita Chant’s practice commemorates her love for the natural world. She draws from memories, fragmented and distorted by time, and recreates the scenes of her most precious moments with Mother Earth. Drawing predominantly with ink, pencil and soft pastel on paper, Chant’s practise explores the concept of nostalgia; how memories and emotional connections can transform reality. Her focus on nature and nostalgia are also key themes in her jewellery making practise, and she moves between drawing and designing with a harmonious fluidity. 

Born in Bankok, Thailand in 1993, Chant’s Anglo-Thai heritage provided her with a rich cultural and cosmopolitan background. Journeying across the globe independently from a young age, she became fascinated by earth’s natural diversity and topography. 

Accustom to change, she describes herself as a wanderlust and citizen of the world as her home has never been cemented to a physical place. Instead, she finds herself most at home surrounded by nature. 

Chant defines her drawings as a physical representation of her own reality and are deeply personal to her memories and experiences. She treats her works like a diary of her own experiences and inserts the emotions she ties to those moments. 

Though personal to Chant in creation, her works also invite the viewer to project their own memories and experiences into the image. Forming a new reading with their own inserted emotions, the works become reborn again with each moment a viewer has with them.