Carolyn Thompson Great Loves and Other Works at Eagle Gallery, London, 2014
Carolyn Thompson is a visual artist living and working in the UK. Her artwork is about narrative. She is interested in the interconnectivity between words and place, and in durational activities such as reading, walking and stitching as performance. She cuts, edits, weaves, folds, stitches, draws, erases, walks and re-writes.
Using literature and archival sources Carolyn appropriates or re-writes pre-existing stories to develop new narratives. Her multi-disciplinary practice incorporates altered texts, drawings, installations, book works, textiles, performance, and sound and video works.
Carolyn has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally at institutions including Center for Book Arts, New York, MGLC International Centre for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, and MAK Vienna. Her work can be found in several public collections.
Recent projects include: Vague Poetics (2023), commissioned by Matt’s Gallery, London; Silenced (2021), commissioned by Nasty Women Connecticut and Yale Institute of Sacred Music; The Last Walk Home (2020-21), a residency with North Yorkshire Archives and Chrysalis Arts; and Food Lovers (2020) commissioned by Imprints of the New Modernist Editing.
Work from Carolyn’s 2019 solo exhibition Post Moderns, initially shown at the Laurence Sterne Trust, won the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Prize People’s Book Art Award in 2020. She is the recipient of a 2021 Dover Prize Creative Award, and is currently working on new film, performance and installation pieces.
Carolyn Thompson is represented by Eagle Gallery, London