Caroline McCarthy
Crisps, toilet-paper, plastic bags, supermarket packaging, rubbish and furniture are some of the raw materials used by Caroline McCarthy in considering notions of value and taste inherent in the surface of everyday objects and images, whilst at the same time bringing such unassuming material into conversation with methods of art production and presentation.
Positioned in response to a culture of mass production, where every kind of experience, fantasy or sense of one’s place in the world is pre-determined through some form of packaging, the work employs humour and other strategies of intervention to investigate the space between ideological veneer and the concrete materiality of things.
Caroline McCarthy was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1971. She studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 1989 – 1994 and is based in London since completing an MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London in 1998.
Past awards include the Allied Irish Bank artist award in 2001; Open Award at EV+A 1996 and 2000; and a Multi-Annual Bursary award from the Arts Council of Ireland, 2007/2008, with works included in the collection of Irish Museum of Modern Art, Allied Irish Bank, Arts Council of Ireland, Zabludowicz Collection UK, Berge Collection Spain, and many private collections.
Recent solo exhibitions include Parker's Box Gallery, New York (2011); Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (2011); Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent (2008); Gimpel Fils Gallery, London (2008); Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf (2007); Void, Derry, N.Ireland (2007); Group shows include (Z)art, curated by Jan Hoet, AbtArt, Stuttgart (2009); To be continued...Jaktuu, curated by The British Council, Helsinki (2005); Europe Exists, curated by Rosa Martinez with Harald Szeemann, MMCA, Thessaloniki, Greece (2003); Public commissions include Light For Cicely (2010), a permanent site-specific work for the new Cicely Saunders Institute, commissioned by King’s College London in association with the Contemporary Art Society.
Current:
The Curator’s Egg, Altera Pars,
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
3rd February - 3rd March 2012
S.H.O.W.T.I.M.E.
Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
22nd January - 26th February 2012
Recent:
Made-To-Measure, Solo exhibition,
Parker’s Box Gallery, New York, USA
11th November - 24th December 2011
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Arrangements, Solo exhibition,
Green On Red Gallery, Dublin,
24th June - 6th August 2011
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Meer
Voorkamer, Antwerp, Belgium
11th Sept - 24th Oct 2010
Altered Images
works from the collection of IMMA
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
17th June - 15th August 2010
Making Nature
curated by Gemma Tipton,
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
9th June - 10th July 2010
(Z)ART
curated by Jan Hoet,
Galerie ABTart, Stuttgart, Germany
13th October 2009 - 31st January 2010
Light For Cicely
Permanent installation commissioned
by King’s College London in association with the
Contemporary Art Society
Launch in October 2010
Downstairs Review: Part 1
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
22nd January 2010 - 6th March 2010
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