Carolyn Blake

MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds School of Art, London. ‘Bringing to life the inconsequential and non-memorable’. I record the non-event in the everyday, bringing to life the inconsequential and non-memorable. What is glimpsed as a snapshot, be it a colour, a shape or a structure, is recalled in a split second and becomes suspended in time. Since 2019 I have produced a large body of work related to train travel. As a passenger the fascination is the contrast of the manmade placed and standing stoically within the wild foliage of the natural landscape. Within a split second the recognition of something and the action of recording takes place and the unremarkable is given a presence. Group exhibitions (selection) 2022 Autumn Song - a love letter to change, Malvern Library, Worcestershire 2022 Leamington Open 2022, Leamington Museum and Art Gallery 2022 Beep Painting Prize 2022, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2022 West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery Walsall 2022 Weary Harold, ASC Gallery, Taplow House, London 2022 Worcester Open, School of Arts, Worcester 2021 Long-listed Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021 2021 Ikon for Artists, Birmingham 2020 Summer/Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London 2020 Harley Open, Harley Gallery, Welbeck Solo exhibitions (selection) 2020 Space and Place, TStreet Gallery, Birmingham 2012 Not So Happy, Yet Much Happier, New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge 2012 Okapi Happi, The Pie Factory, Margate