Armando’s practice-based research is an investigation of material transformation as applied to mediated images of the ‘landscape.’ The work is concerned with the possibilities and limits of representation using processes of erasure, disruption and repetition in relation to found images, where ‘the image’ does not sit exclusively within one realm but in between multiple mediums and surfaces. This interdisciplinary approach builds on the conceptual and aesthetic tension between craft and concept, image and object, local and global, visual and tactile. His work explores these dynamic relationships by foregrounding the in-between as a new space that emerges from these binary tensions.
He has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, across Sydney, Melbourne, and London, and has participated in major regional gallery exhibitions and national award platforms.
In 2025, Chant’s work was selected as a finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Prize for the second consecutive year (touring throughout NSW). He was also a finalist in the Waverley Art Prize, and exhibited at Tamworth Regional Gallery as part of the group exhibition PRESENT / PLACE. In 2024, he was again selected for the Wynne Prize, received a Highly Commended in the Gosford Art Prize (Gosford Regional Gallery), and was a finalist in both the Jacaranda Drawing Biennale (Grafton Regional Gallery) and the Redlands Art Prize (Cleveland Regional Art Gallery). In 2023, his work was selected for the Dobell Drawing Award, Australia’s leading survey of contemporary drawing (touring nationally through to 2025). He was also a finalist in the Hazelhurst Arts on Paper Award and the inaugural GIRRA: Fraser Coast Prize for Landscape.Chant has exhibited twice in the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award Triennial (2021 and 2018), and participated in the Tamworth Textile Triennial in both 2020 and 2015, with his work acquired by Tamworth Regional Gallery for its permanent collection.
In 2025, he will undertake the peer-reviewed Onslow Storrier and National Art School Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Previous international residencies include the DRAW International Artist Residency in Caylus, France, in 2018.