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‘Some Domestic Incidents' was curated by Matt Price as part of the expanded painting section of the Prague Biennale 2011. Chorlton was invited by Price to make new work for the exhibition. Four Chorlton paintings were included alongside work by six other British representational painters: Caroline Walker, Justin Mortimer, Anna M.R. Freeman, Oliver Clegg, Sally Payen, and Philip Hale. The exhibition was funded by Arts Council England, and had a second showing in extended form, at MAC Birmingham in autumn 2011

Chorlton’s work in ‘Some Domestic Incidents’ included four paintings of interiors, external views of architecture and place, and the device of pictures within pictures. The exhibition gave Chorlton the opportunity to see his work in an Eastern European context, which has led the re-emergence of contemporary painting embodying subjective experience in a meaningful, non-ironic way. The interiors paintings were sourced from a 1960s book of domestic interior design. Images of objects, such as a pile of Christmas cards, were used and cross-referenced between paintings, such as in ‘Cards’ and ‘Blue Chair’. The paintings were made using thin colour layers; light and composition implied narratives, but the paintings also contain stillness, presence and loss. The intention was that the painting language and the imagery enabled an exploration of our psychological relationship to places. This contributed to the ‘conversations’ between the various manifestations of contemporary representational painting in the exhibition and in the biennale as a whole.

Involvement in the exhibition continues a working relationship with Price which began with his curation of the solo exhibition ‘Hotel Minerva’ at the Master Piper Gallery, London in 2009 and continued with ‘The Witching Hour’, curated by Price and Matthew Collins for Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Pitshanger Manor, London in 2010-11. That second exhibition explored the uncanny and enabled further development of the ideas initially explored in the works for Prague. It included four new works, one of which was subsequently chosen for the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition, as part of Liverpool Biennial 2012.

‘Some Domestic Incidents’ formed part of the Prague Biennale. The biennale runs over several months and attracts a large international audience. The Biennale publication includes an essay by Price about ‘Some Domestic Incidents’ with reproductions of works by each artist.