After Capote: When Truman met Marlon, 2019
Carolyn Thompson has been awarded the 2020 Minnesota Center for Book Arts People’s Book Art Award for her work After Capote: When Truman met Marlon, from her 2018-19 series of work Post Moderns. The full 50 works from the series had were previously shown in solo exhibitions at The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, York in 2019 and Eagle Gallery, London in spring 2020.
The Penguin Collector 95
A review of Thompson’s Post Moderns exhibition held at Eagle Gallery, London (previously Shandy Hall, York), has been reviewed by Michael Hampton in The Penguin Collector, issue 95. Copies of The Penguin Collector are available from The Penguin Collectors Society website, or the review can be read here.
After Capote - When Truman met Marlon, 2019
Carolyn Thompson has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Prize 2020 with her work After Capote: When Truman met Marlon. The altered book is from her recent series Post Moderns based on the Penguin Modern box set.
The Duke in His Domain is the transcript of a six-hour interview between Truman Capote and Marlon Brando, in which the writer managed to get the actor to reveal some of his deepest secrets. Given the intriguing relationship between the two, an astrological birthdate relationship analysis report has been undertaken on the pair, sections of which have been retyped and added as notes to the original text where they seem pertinent.
The MCBA Prize exhibition has been taken online this year and can be seen here.
https://mcbaprize.org/2020-mcba-prize-peoples-book-art-award/
‘AN INTRODUCTION / "France", or... we are circles of cancelled stars’, a new article edited by Philip Davenport and including some of Carolyn Thompson’s latest body of work Post Moderns, alongside a host of brilliant artists, poets and writers, can now be found on the Synapse International blog.
The Eponymous Protagonist in Convolusion Journal Issue 5-7
Carolyn Thompson’s 2018 work The Eponymous Protagonist will be published in the latest edition of the New York Journal Convolution. For further information about the journal, or to buy a copy, the Convolution Journal can be found here.
Comprising 50 separate artworks, Carolyn Thompson’s new body of work, Post Moderns, is based on the 50 texts found in the Penguin Modern Box Set (2018), which celebrates the pioneering spirit of Penguin’s publishing.
Following her solo show at Laurence Sterne Trust, York in 2019, a solo exhibition of the full fifty works will be held at Eagle Gallery, London from 13 February to 14 March 2020. For further information visit the Eagle Gallery website here.
Carolyn Thompson will be working with North Yorkshire County Records Office and Chrysalis Arts as part of the Unfolding Origins Residency Programme throughout 2020. She will be undertaking the Ryedale Residency. For more information about Unfolding Origins visit the Chrysalis Arts website here.
Somewhere In-Between at Brixton Tate Library, 5 - 30 November, curated by Foster Spragge.
Somewhere In-Between, a project curated by Foster Spragge, and including the work Poetry by Carolyn Thompson, will be on show at Brixton Tate Library from 5–30 November 2019.
After Lem – War, 2019
Carolyn Thompson’s new body of work, Post Moderns, is based on the 50 texts found in the Penguin Modern Box Set (2018), which celebrates the pioneering spirit of Penguin’s publishing. The collection includes seminal works by Samuel Beckett, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, Dorothy Parker, George Simenon, and Susan Sontag amongst others.
A solo exhibition of the full fifty works will be held at Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, York, from 8 September until 4 October 2019, and Eagle Gallery, London in February 2020.
After Burroughs: Syntax, one of the 50 artworks in the collection Post Moderns, which will be shown in full in September 2019 at The Laurence Sterne Trust, will be exhibited by archivehumanitas.com from May 11th 2019 as part of a guest artist spot.
Frankenstein 2018, containing the work Night Terrors, has moved to Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol and will be shown until 28th February 2019. The exhibitions contains the work Night Terrors, 2016.
Night Terrors, 2016, 3 x archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo rag, 19.7 x 12.5cm (each of three prints) Edition of 15
7 February - 8 March 2019: 1968 at Eagle Gallery, London, containing works by Jonathan Callan, Simon Morley and Carolyn Thompson. Thompson’s six works included in this show are taken from an on-going series that reference seminal Modern texts re-printed by Penguin. The body of work will be shown in full at the Lawrence Sterne Trust and the Eagle Gallery in 2019–2020.
Frankenstein 2018, containing the work Night Terrors, continues until 26 January at Kirkby Gallery, Knowsley, before touring to Bower Ashton Library, University of Bristol.
Talk with Francesca Capone at Leeds Beckett University as part of the INSIDE/OUT lecture series. 31 October 2018, 1-3pm. Free at all. Further information and register using link below.
Tickets for Francesca Capone & Carolyn Thompson INSIDE/OUT Lecture
14 May - 9 August 2018: Frankenstein 2018 at Liverpool Central Library, touring to Kirkby Gallery, Knowsley from 17 September 2018 to 26 January 2019, featuring Night Terrors by Carolyn Thompson.
20 May - 30 Sept 2018: A Sentimental Journey at The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, Coxwold featuring the work Paper and Patience by Carolyn Thompson
The Eaten Heart in Prescriptions
New University of Kent publication Prescriptions by Stella Bolaki & Egidija Ciricaite featuring The Eaten Heart by Carolyn Thompson
12 Jul - 23 Sep 2017: Protest & Profest: Global Burdens at The Center for Book Arts, New York featuring the work Ode to Donald: Sonnet 18/American Psycho by Carolyn Thompson
18 - 22 Jan 2017: work on show with GBS Fine Art at The London Art Fair
Carolyn Thompson is a British visual artist working predominantly with literature and place.
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