On until the 11th October my solo exhibition, Pringle of Scotland x Caroline Banks at Pringle of Scotland‘s flagship store in Mount Street Mayfair, London consists exclusively of large paintings, many shown for the first time. As featured in Savile Row Style Magazine the show gives an insight into my universe. All paintings are for […]
One-minute blog of interesting things
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As a working contemporary artist I visit many exhibitions and shows, but sometimes it is the things I see that are part of daily life that capture my interest. My one-minute blog of interesting things reflects the fact that although we are increasingly time-poor, there is creativity all around us.
Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle – Barbican Curve. Post 2 of 2
This exhibition has way too much to include in just one post. I’m looking here at a drawing project undertaken from 1971-1977 by Claudia Andujar and Carlo Zacquini. They brought paper and felt pens inviting the Yanomami who were interested to represent their daily life, myths and rituals. Several artists emerged from this group, producing […]
Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle. Barbican Curve – post 1 of 2
I really didn’t know what to expect in this exhibition at The Barbican Curve. The photography installation of Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle takes up the whole of the space, feeling quite immersive. Andujar’s imagery uses colour filters amongst other photographic techniques to convey the other-worldliness of this community. Her photographs give an idea of […]
Sophie Taeuber Arp at Tate Modern
It’s always interesting to learn more about an artist’s work and this exhibition of Sophie Taeuber Arp at Tate Modern, the first retrospective held in the UK, gives a comprehensive survey of her short career. Respected during her lifetime as one of the foremost modernist artists and designers, she rejected any division between art and […]
Paula Rego at Tate Britain
This retrospective Paula Rego exhibition at Tate Britain only confirmed my admiration for the artist. I have never seen so much of her work in one place and have already booked a return visit. The first piece in the exhibition, “Interrogation” was painted when she was only 15 years old. In it Rego has already […]
Chantal Joffe: Story at Victoria Miro
Not having seen much of Chantal Joffe‘s work in the flesh I was expecting everything to be as large scale as this painting above. I was therefore surprised at the domestic size of the majority of paintings in her exhibition, Story at Victoria Miro. The intimacy of familial relationships was echoed in this use of […]
The Making of Rodin at Tate Modern
This exhibition, The Making of Rodin at Tate Modern, presents the sculptor’s work in a slightly different light, revealing his use of multiple elements, repetition and iteration, processes normally kept out of sight and behind the scenes. After his first sculpture, The Age of Bronze (L’Age d’airain), was deemed by the critics too lifelike to […]
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity rooms at Tate Modern
There are so many photographs of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity mirror rooms yet I hadn’t visited any: I have a deep aversion to queuing. So the recent Tate Modern exhibition finally gave me the opportunity to experience them alone and for several minutes. Restrictions still in place meant that I had the spaces to myself. This […]
Sanya Kantarovsky at Modern Gallery
My friend and I stopped chatting when we saw this exhibition of Sanya Kantarovsky’s work at Modern Art on Helmet Row. There’s a strong sense of unease and foreboding in these life-sized paintings from 2019-20. You know things are wrong; something terrible has happened or is just about to. Life is frightening and unpredictable. And […]
Ellen Gallagher: Ecstatic Draught of Fishes at Hauser & Wirth
This exhibition coincided with the Mayfair Art Weekend in June which I worked on so I directed everyone to see it at Hauser & Wirth. I hadn’t come across Ellen Gallagher before but was impressed by the work in Ecstatic Draught of Fishes. Gallagher explores the Afro-futurist mythology of Drexciya in these large paint, collage […]
