Peacock, Chyanne

Originally from Australia, Chyanne is a contemporary artist now residing in Tokyo, Japan. In 2023 she received a Bachelor of Arts in Arts from university. Since her graduation, she has been exploring ways to integrate her art into her community and is planning to communicate her vision through future exhibitions.

~ PORTFOLIO ~

Analogue Drawings – Colour

Analogue Drawings – Black & White

Analogue Drawing – Pastels

Paintings

Printmaking

Book Making

Artist Statement

Living in Australia all my life, I had no real idea about my drive for life. I went through my educational years with no real sense of self achievement, I felt there was no need for me to be anything more than just average, I didn’t strive to make anything of myself and always thought I was “happy” enough just going through the motions. I never looked into further education because I felt I wasn’t good enough to be there. So after high school, I went straight into working, where I went through several years of job hunting and trying to find a place to fit. In 2017 I got to come to Japan, where I spent a year living and learning more about Japan and its cultures. Japan was the change I felt I needed, where I was able to meet new people and make lifelong connections, as well as I was also able to focus on myself and managed to find what I wanted out of life, and thus the goal of making my way through University, graduating with a degree, then being able to live in Japan for a more permanent amount of time, began. 

When I think of my aspirations for my artwork, I think that I want people to enjoy and appreciate my art for what it is. I have begun experimenting with more mediums and branching out from what I normally would make, to try and appeal to as many people as possible. In the past I would keep mostly to my sketchbooks and only really show off pieces that I was 100% satisfied with, but now I have come to know that even sketches are worth looking at, they show the idea process and how an artist is evolving. Being the perfectionist that I am, I have always dreaded trying new things, especially in my art I have always stuck to a lot of just greylead drawings, only really moving to line them with fineliners. Color use was always so daunting and I avoided it where I could, but it wasn’t until I was in university that I was able to experience newer mediums such as pastel colors and oil paints, and was able to become a lot more confident and excited to experiment. University also gave me a reason to think about the meaning of my art, and the opportunity to pry further into the deep recesses of myself.  

After being in university, and being forced to actually think about what and why I am doing art, I think I have come to the conclusion that I make art to express myself in a way that I don’t know how to express verbally. I feel that I make works that are either really deep in metaphorical meanings or I make art that is really pretty, and I think that this is to do with my own subconscious thoughts of not seeing myself as “pretty” or “beautiful”. I think this is best seen when I use flowers as subject or background matter, I feel that there needs to be these natural elements to “beautify” the average pieces. I think my art is a way to show a side of myself that I wish was more tangible. It is fundamentally my way of trying to connect to society in ways that it might accept. I want to make art for people to see and in doing so, I want them to see these parts of myself that I want to express and show off, I want the appreciation and approval from peers and strangers alike.