Coral Churchill
Degree: BA Fine Art - Painting
University: Central Saint Martins
Graduation Year: 2007
New Blood Art Statement
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Churchill paints reminiscent but abstracted forms: at one point a series of monkey portraits emerging from this abstraction. This body of work shows an idiosyncratic and engaging tact with colour. Her work explores hybridity, Darwinism and morphologies of forms, sampling and reconstructing different terrains and organic matter. Most of all the work emits a dynamic curiosity and sense of wonder. Churchill’s work has been published on the cover of Volume magazine and she was invited to exhibit in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2008.
Artist Statement
My work takes inspiration from nature and landscape painting to explore the format, referencing cloud, land and seascapes. The horizon is a connecting and repeating point, with prismatic light a central focus looking at ways to create otherworldly spaces. Alongside these paintings are portraits that are often representations of indigenous people from around the world, from Papua New Guinea to the Americas. There are several strands that run thematically through and I look for different ways to sample and interlink the images that appear, with reference to biomorphic structures, natural world photography and botanical illustration. I often use colour gradiented and chromatically, looking at ways to recreate how light and luminescence looks, taking inspiration from photography and the colours created in nature, from jewel-like insects to deep sea creatures and their neon bioluminescent forms.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Solo Exhibition, The Muse, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 AiR Retrospective and Auction, The Muse Gallery, London
2015 HowTheLightGetsIn, The Institute of Art and Ideas, Hay-on-Wye
2015 Heads, Studio One Gallery, London
2014 St Mary's Convent Auction, London
2013 Solo Exhibition, The Muse Gallery, London
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2013 AIR Residency 'Open', The Muse Gallery, London
2012 Orchestrated, Studio One Gallery, London
2012 Art Alive, Kingly Court, London
2010 400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2010 The Trouble with Women, Menier Gallery, London
2009 Art Market, Guest Projects, London
2009 One or Several Wolves, Kingsgate Gallery, London
2009 London Art Fair
2008 Martian Hearts, Contemporary Art Projects, London
2008 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2008 '00 Nature, Contemporary Art Projects, London
2008 Urban Art Show, The Old Cinema, London
2008 It's Not Over Yet, Etc Gallery, London
2007 Morphology, The Window Gallery, London