Caragh Thuring

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Memphis HL, 2013

Sagaponack

Caragh Thuring was born 1972 in Brussels, Belgium, moved to Britain with her family at age one, and now lives and works in London.

Caragh Thuring’s method conveys a sense of breathless speed. Her paintings are spare and sparse. Large tracts of her paintings leave the unprimed linen exposed, its bare nature juxtaposed with the loosely painted “figural” elements. In the past her imagery included figurative elements derived from art history (e.g. Manet, Titian), as well as architecture and the industrial landscape. Thuring dances between the abstract and the representational, where gravity and chance (in the form of drips and seemingly accidental, painterly gesture) contribute to the imagery and atmosphere.

Recent solo exhibitions include

  • The Chisenhale Gallery, London (2014/15)

  • Anthony Meier, San Francisco (2013)

  • Simon Preston Gallery, New York (2011)

  • Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2010)

Group exhibitions include

  • Call and Response at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (2015)

  • Live and Let Die at Modern Art, London (2014)

  • July at The Approach, London (2014)

  • Performer As Curator, The Lowry, Manchester (2013)

  • Troubling Space, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2012)

  • Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (2010).

Work appears in the collection of the Tate Gallery in London.