Chloe Neath  Artist

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'The Baby Farmer' book

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Set against the backdrop of London's East End during the 1870's, The Baby Farmer explores the isolation and spiralling madness that surrounds 6 year old Agatha May and her mentally ill mother Winnifred Alcorn. Amidst an ever growing nightmare of premonitions, omens and visitations Agatha and Winnifred's darkened world slowly begins to unravel when a shadowy stranger with a sinister agenda appears on the streets of Whitechapel and initiates a terrifying game of cat and mouse that will leave both mother and daughter changed forever.

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For The Baby Farmer, artist Chloe Neath has meticulously created over 25 breathtaking illustrations that beautifully portray Agatha and Winnifred’s gloomy, Victorian realm. Executed in sharpened charcoal on brown paper, the antique melancholy of Chloe Neath's work brings to life a tale that is as exquisite as it is ugly, and as bold as it is ambiguous. From astonishingly detailed panoramas of London’s East End, to intimately raw portraits of the characters, Chloe has captured the very essence of The Baby Farmer story in all of its jolting extremes.

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Written by the driving force behind Melbourne based theatre company, The Laudanum Project Nick Ravenswood has woven dense and intricate passages for The Baby Farmer that not only exist simultaneously as printed text and recited monologue, but occupy a space where delicate and brittle poetry entwine with the sacred and profane.

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