Chloe Austin

Chloe Austin (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges text, performance, and installation to interrogate the intersections of language, history, and identity. Fascinated by the complexity of language—how it behaves, breaks, and resists linear meaning—Austin surrounds herself with archives, typography, and far too many open tabs, creating text-based works that honour queer-feminist histories and the fluid politics of language. Her practice explores performative approaches to archival material and typographic history, investigating how text-based communication shapes and reflects queer-feminist expression in Ireland and the UK. Through these performative methods—re-speaking, repetition, and reinterpretation—her work captures the tension and ephemerality inherent in textual forms, embracing linguistic chaos as both strategy and celebration. She is currently a PhD Researcher at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, where she also completed her MFA in 2020.