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Caroline List is a British contemporary Artist, born in Nottingham & works in London & Ramsgate. Caroline graduated from an MA in painting at Chelsea School of Art & design. Her earlier works produced in the 90’s were large contemporary abstract paintings, which referenced epic history painting, dystopian nature & elemental landscapes.
Over the years her work has become more formal with a focus on colour and atmospheric light, Caroline describes these works as ‘Chromatic Spatial Abstractions’. Caroline’s main focus is painting but she has explored her ideas through various media, such as print, sculpture and light boxes. Within these works she seeks to explore abstraction, balance & form through the Sensuality of shape, colour & light. Recent paintings & sculptural paintings, generate an ongoing dialogue, exploring modernism, colour opticality, colour-theory. and atmospheric light, This ongoing fascination with colour and its emotive sensory impact, (in a contemporary context) also makes reference to spatial illusions, the ‘virtual screen’ and the sensory luminosity of colour & light
Since graduating with an MA in Painting, (1988) from Chelsea School of Art & Design Caroline has been represented by a number of galleries, exhibited in London, Spain, New York, Toronto, Paris & China, including Curating several successful exhibitions in the contemporary London art scene.
Carolines work has been collected by a number of private collectors as well as corporate collections, including, The Contemporary Arts Society, Arthur Anderson London, Neuberger & Berman New York, Fidelity Financial, London, JP Morgan & Cazenove bank. Hilton -la defense – Paris. Caroline’s ‘Light Box -Tondo ‘works are exhibited at the Groucho club ( Soho ) which are currently part of their contemporary collection – London .
Artist’s Statement – for Over 40 years I have been committed to supporting my art career through exhibitions, gallery sales, funding & curated shows, along with working part time in education. I taught Fine Art painting methods and materials, colour workshops & spray processes, running ‘The Paint Surface’ Workshop at UAL, Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design, along with teaching ‘ Mixed Media Painting’ (summer schools ) I worked there part time for over 27 years. It’s great to be now, fully focused in my studio. I am so excited to work with new curators, galleries and art lovers. Recent shows are ….
Exhibitions – 2025 -26
December 2025 – 26 Ramsgate Winter Festival of Light – Sponsored by The Arts Council -England – 11 selected artist install art works and installations. illuminating public spaces in “Light Up Ramsgate ‘
December 2025 – Jan 26 Linden Hall Gallery – group show – Deal Kent
October 2025 Lido Open Margate – Kent – curated by Kristen Healy & Sophie Von Hellermann
July 2025 Site specific exhibition in Margate/Kent at The Orchid Room Margate Kent – This exhibition explores light & colour conversation, showing paintings and light boxes, with a focus on purple & pink – titled . ‘Perfectly purple but Decidedly Pink ‘
July 2025 Ramsgate – Print Fair Curated by Harry Pye – Group Contemporary Print Show over 40 artists
COMMON GROUND
https://www.laurentdelaye.com/exhibitions/36-common-ground-an-exhibition-in-folkestone/
28 March – 7 April 2025 – Folkestone/ UK
November 2024
‘COLOUR WAVES ( Turbulence ) ‘ Tension Fine art curated by Laurence Noga
Group exhibition of paintings and sculpture, exploring (non representation) through materiality, chromatic saturation and colour turbulence
October – 2024
‘PAST PRESENT & FUTURE ’ The Art Academy, curated by Rob Pepper & Sue Spall, Bankside, London
2024
FLATLAND – Side Show Lethaby Gallery, University of the Arts -Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design, London
Passing Winter Laurent Delaye Gallery, Ramsgate , Kent
2023
Summer Exhibition Laurent Delaye Gallery Ramsgate , Kent https://www.laurentdelaye.com/
December – 2023 Jan 2024
FLOWER Gallery, London, Cork street ‘Small Is Beautiful’. 41st edition. group show
https://www.flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/579-small-is-beautiful-41st-edition/
Recent shows 2023-24
FLOWERS GALLERY
‘Small Is Beautiful’ 41st edition – FLOWERS Gallery Mayfair, London
2023
Summer Exhibition
Laurent Delaye gallery Ramsgate , kent https://www.laurentdelaye.com/
Summer Show – Light Tondo, light box works – 8)cm Diameter led light boxes of back lit paintings 2023
July 2023
Ruskin Gallery Cambridge
The New Accelerator exhibition, aims to establish a dialogue between a range of artists who have reflected advances in technology through reductive, minimal, architectonic or geometric approaches.
https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/culture-calendar/the-new-accelerator/
November 2022 -23
‘Small Is Beautiful’ 40th edition – FLOWERS Gallery Mayfair, London
Colour Suspension Blue Magenta Oil on Linen ( Sold)
Colour Suspension Blue Yellow Acrylic & oil on Linen (Sold)
October 2022
Marie Josie Gallery Kensington, London AL(L)ONE
https://www.mariejosegallery.com/allone
Kensington, London
July 2022
Horizon (landscape and beyond) Curated by Alex.Hinks
At The Cello Factory Gallery, London -30th June – 10th July 2022
Horizon (landscape and beyond) Landscape has been integral to artists for hundreds of years, from frescos to oil paintings and more. Horizon exhibition presents contemporary artists’ interpretation, representation and abstraction of our surroundings through a multiplicity of mediums.
image below from Horizon (landscape and beyond) Curated by Alex.Hinks
November 2022
FLOWER Gallery, London, Cork street ‘Small Is Beautiful’. 40th edition. group show
https://www.flowersgallery.com/usr/documents/exhibitions/press_release_url/551/press-release-small-is-beautiful-xl-2022-.pdf
Circle & Light Laurent Delaye gallery Ramsgate,UK
July 8th – August 30th – 2022
https://www.laurentdelaye.com/exhibitions/21-circle-and-light-summer-exhibition/
2021
‘SHAPE CHROMA ‘ 3 person show , TENSION Fine Art, London https://www.tensionfineart.co.uk/current-exhibition-chroma/
‘Shape Chroma’ at Tension Fine Art, London . https://www.artlyst.com/previews/shape-chroma-katrina-bf/
Shape Chroma is a ‘trialogue’ curated by the artist Caroline List between three painters: herself, Laurence Noga and Katrina Blannin, who bring these questions into the realm of contemporary aesthetics with different explorations into colour, shape and spatial illusion. No single issue has been more fundamental to modernist painting than the acknowledgement of flatness or two-dimensionality, but the power of the mark to suggest illusion and depth belongs not so much to painting as to the eye. Exploring chromatic interactions, constructed and illusionistic space, each artist has created new painterly conversations in the light of Modernist abstraction and contemporary digital influences, highlighting the Goethe/Newton dichotomy between reason and the poetic.
Text Sue Hubbard
“Working on linen, board, paper and aluminium Caroline List creates luminous paintings full of sensuous hues that explore the spatial qualities of colour in relationship to form and ground, defined by their differing absorbances. Drawing on early 20th century abstraction and virtual screen photography her work implicitly refers to landscapes, organic shapes and atmospheric light. Using high key pigments and fluorescents full of transparency and opacity her works, despite their sophisticated geometry, create links to the saturated colour fields of Rothko and the spiritual, other worldly light of Caspar David Friedrich.”
Review ‘Shape Chroma’ Artlyst – Sue Hubbard (2021)
DIRTY PINK – female artists explore the colour pink, examining stereotypes around femininity & colour group show – Spain,Valencia
2018
Light Chroma, Solo show, Angus-Hughes Gallery, Clapton, London. angus-hughes.org/THE-CELLAR-–
2015
Geoscapes, Solo show ARTHOUSE1 Bermondsey, London. arthouse1.co.uk/
Caroline List Solo show Geo Scapes presents a series of paintings and light boxes in response to her observations of the Iceland landscape. These works explore the materiality of nature and the phenomenological sublime through the lens of the natural, and manmade geothermal interventions
2002 -The Horizon of Expectation – The Empire Gallery, Hackney, London, “ curated by Caroline List Artists explore utopia / dystopia space horizons, through personal perspective and material processes. Fusing a hybrid world of fact and fiction through a re- interpretations of place and space. These constructed realities of space, transport the viewer into a new reality, a place of fantasy, a shifted perception, drawn towards a new horizon, an imaginary line, that is itself an illusion .
Exhibiting artist: Gordon Cheung Gavin Nolan, Isabel Young, Reece Jones, Jost Munster, kounsuke kowakame, Peter Lamb, George Doneo, Memei Thompson, Caroline List .
Colour Suspension sculpture 2022
At The Cello Factory
London
July 2022
Chroma Shape & Chroma Sphere paintings
Education
1988 – Chelsea School of Art & Design, MAFA Painting
1986 – BA Fine Art ,Portsmouth School Of Art
19683 BETEC Art & Design Mansfield School of Art
2011- PG Cert in teaching & learning, UAL,Central Saint Martins School of Art
Collections
2016
The Groucho Club contemporary collection.
2009
Dover Street Arts Club, Mayfair London.
2008
Fidelity Financial Corporate collection, London.
2005
Cazenove / JP Morgan Investment bank, London.
2004
Neuberger & Berman collection, New York.
2004
Lehman brothers Investment bank private, London.
1998
Evans, private collection London.
1997
Le Capitol la Defence private collection, Paris.
1996
The Hilton Hotel Headquarters, London.
1990
Contemporary Arts Society, public collection, London
1990
Arthur Anderson, private collection, London.
1989
Milbank House, public collection, London.
Awards, scholarships & prizes
2018
Refresh funding University of the Arts, Central Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design
2017
The Breathing Space bursary, Space Studios, London
2007
Nominated for Bryan Robertson award in painting
1995
Royal Over-Seas League awarded 1st prize in painting, in the annual international Commonwealth painting competition
1987
Herbert Read Scholarship
1986
East Midlands Arts, starter grant for emerging artists
Publications and Reviews
2021 latest Articles
2021 -Artlyst – Shape Chroma / Text by Sue Hubbard
Publications
2023 Exhibition catalogue ‘The New Accelerator ‘ – Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
The discourse surrounding Geometrical and Systems based art remains rooted in 1960s and early 1970s zeitgeist for purity, through clarity of thought and articulation, and as an extension of earlier Modernist dialogues. Conventionally located often as related to painting or other physical processes of construction such as sculpture or wall-based reliefs, The New Accelerator exhibition profiles a wider range of work, such as digital generative simulation or 3d video animation, which are presented alongside work that continues to explore media such as oil or acrylic on canvas, 3d relief constructions and installation.
2021 https://www.riseart.com/article/2390/the-landscapes-of-sublime-abstraction
Caroline List
2016 Luxury art & design article, www.yachtinvestors.c
2012
Christie’s Auction Catalogue, Lehman Brothers
HA HA WHAT DOES THIS REPRESENT, Catalogue designed by Katrina Blannin
Game and Play: Intuition/anti-intuition at Lion and Lamb Gallery, Patterns That Connect
2010
Unnatural Selection review, FAD Website
Unnatural Selection review, Amelia’s Magazine
Christie’s catalogue – Lehman Brothers Auction, London
2008
Silent Witnesses solo show review, Saatchi Gallery blog
2006
Contemporary Magazine Issue 82, Chimera exhibition, critic, Richard Dyer
2004
l’Espresso Magazine, Italy, article, Contemporary Artist In the East End London
2003
The Spectator, ‘Smog’ Exhibition, commenting on 50 years on from the 1952 London Smog
2002
Ditto Ditto solo show catalogue, foreword written by Richard Dyer: Sublime, Subliminal, Dicing With Doubles, sponsored by The London Institute, Chelsea School of Art
1997
Dinosaurs’ Blood ‘The Body of Painting’ catalogue, Richard Dyer: Art in Perpetuity Trust, London
1990
New Generation catalogue Bonhams
1988
Chelsea MA show Caroline List reviewed by Sarah Kent, Time Out magazine