CV
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Resume – Brief Bio
I am a British contemporary painter born in Nottingham lives and works in London & Ramsgate.
My work seeks to express balance and form through the Sensuality of shape, colour & light. My recent paintings & sculptural paintings, generate an ongoing dialogue, exploring my love of colour, atmospheric light and Modernist abstract languages.
Since graduating with an MA in Painting, (1988) from Chelsea School of Art & Design, I have exhibited in London, Spain, New York, Toronto, Paris and China. In the past I have curated several successful exhibitions in the contemporary London art scene and my work has been collected by a number of private collectors as well as corporate collections, including, The Contemporary Arts Society, Neuberger & Berman New York, Fidelity Financial, London, JP Morgan & Cazenove bank. My ‘Light Tondo ‘works are exhibited at the Groucho club ( Soho ) and are currently part of their contemporary collection in London . Over the years I have endeavoured to support my art career through exhibitions and working part time in a number of art schools, such as Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design, UAL.
I currently show in group and curated shows in the UK and overseas. In 2021, I curated and exhibited in ‘Shape Chroma’ at Tension Fine Art, London, a three person show exploring spatial abstraction, colour and assemblage. Caroline Has recently exhibited in group exhibitions at Laurent Delaye gallery. ‘FLOWERS’ Gallery, London.
Recent shows 2023-24
2024 Extempore 24 (group show various media) at Tension Fine Art, Penge, South London
EXHIBITIONS – Extempore 24
2024 Flatland – Side Show Lethaby Gallery, University of the Arts -Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design, London
2024 ‘Small Is Beautiful’ – FLOWERS Gallery Mayfair, London
2024 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
2024 FLOWERS GALLERY ‘Small is Beautiful’ 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/
October 2022
Marie Josie Gallery 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.
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/
DIRTY PINK group show – Spain,Valencia
2018
Light Chroma, Solo show, Angus-Hughes Gallery, Clapton, London. angus-hughes.org/THE-CELLAR-GALLER
2015
Geoscapes, Solo show ARTHOUSE1 Bermondsey, London. arthouse1.co.uk/
Curated Shows
2021
‘Shape Chroma’ at Tension Fine Art, London.
Shape Chroma: Katrina Blannin, Caroline List, Laurence Noga At Tension Fine Art By Sue Hubbard
Artist Statement
Caroline List’s recent paintings and sculptural works are an inquiry into the sensuality of form colour, light and space, exploring the opticality of simultaneous colour contrast and its emotive visual impact.
“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)
Compositional ideas are generated from collages and paintings on paper, which are later developed into large linen canvases or paintings on board or aluminium. The surface absorbency of colour and light in these works transports the viewer into a visual experience of transient colour, which is not only anchored in Modernist abstraction, but plays with organic totemic forms which float above and beyond the pictorial horizons line. Recent developments into the inquiry of colour and form have generated painted sculptural works, in the ‘Colour Suspension’ series, which explores the relationship between the painted two-dimensional space, flat surfaces and three-dimensional structures, where painted 2D space blends and shapes 3D form.
Curated shows 2004
‘The Horizon of Expectation
Fuses a hybrid world of fact and fiction through a re- interpretations of place and space. Through constructed realities of space, the viewer is transported into a new reality, a place of fantasy, a shifted perception, drawn towards a new horizon, an imaginary line that is itself an illusion .
The Empire Gallery, Hackney, London, “ curated by Caroline List
Exhibiting artist: Gordon Cheung Gavin Nolan, Isabel Young, Reece Jones, Jost Munster, kounsuke kowakame, Peter Lamb, George Doneo, Memei Thompson, Caroline List .
Curated Shows
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.
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Horizon (landscape and beyond) Curated by Alex.Hinks
At The Cello Factory Gallery, London -30th June – 10th July 2022
Colour Suspension sculpture 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
Shape Chroma: Katrina Blannin, Caroline List, Laurence Noga At Tension Fine Art 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