Caroline Popham
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Frost Kissed Horizon, 2024
Shadows Arc, 2024
Caroline Popham's work begins in sketchbooks, drawing suggestions of nature, everyday scenes, sensations and representations of personal relationships. These form a visual diary which are both autobiographical as well as observational. They serve as foundational elements that inform her subsequent painting practice.
Caroline works with both canvas and paper either painting or using collage. She often works in blocks and series, to let the ideas finish themselves, rather than trying to govern them. She often does not know what her painting is about until sometime later, so it's almost a co-production between the artist and the medium. The viewer is invited into this coproduction - to derive their own interpretations and meanings. There are recurrent themes within Caroline's work; the friction between control and release, repetition, the positive and negative space between forms and how they interact. A simple, irreducible shape, in unique conjunction with another, can draw out so much complexity of feeling. She aims to capture a certain lightness in both thought and in technique.
Caroline is a British artist living and working in London, England. She studied Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art, London, graduating in 2016 with a postgraduate diploma. Her work engages deeply with the aesthetics of minimalism and abstraction. Primarily working with paint and collage, Popham creates compositions with multilayered narratives that represent her way of seeing. She has exhibited in the UK and Europe as well as collaborations with a British fashion brand and a mural project in the South of France. Her work is featured in an upcoming book by photographer Lucy Laught which will be published in June 2024.
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Frost Kissed Horizon, 2024
Shadows Arc, 2024
Caroline Popham's work begins in sketchbooks, drawing suggestions of nature, everyday scenes, sensations and representations of personal relationships. These form a visual diary which are both autobiographical as well as observational. They serve as foundational elements that inform her subsequent painting practice.
Caroline works with both canvas and paper either painting or using collage. She often works in blocks and series, to let the ideas finish themselves, rather than trying to govern them. She often does not know what her painting is about until sometime later, so it's almost a co-production between the artist and the medium. The viewer is invited into this coproduction - to derive their own interpretations and meanings. There are recurrent themes within Caroline's work; the friction between control and release, repetition, the positive and negative space between forms and how they interact. A simple, irreducible shape, in unique conjunction with another, can draw out so much complexity of feeling. She aims to capture a certain lightness in both thought and in technique.
Caroline is a British artist living and working in London, England. She studied Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art, London, graduating in 2016 with a postgraduate diploma. Her work engages deeply with the aesthetics of minimalism and abstraction. Primarily working with paint and collage, Popham creates compositions with multilayered narratives that represent her way of seeing. She has exhibited in the UK and Europe as well as collaborations with a British fashion brand and a mural project in the South of France. Her work is featured in an upcoming book by photographer Lucy Laught which will be published in June 2024.
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