About & Contact
I’m a self-taught, disabled, visual artist. My practice involves
travelling into surreal landscapes and mythologies using watercolour,
dip pens, textiles or clay. Each material adds a different dimension.
There is a lot of whimsical animism in my work created by the ink layers
I add to the watercolours. Always working from an automatic process with no planning or sketching, which allows a purely instinctive play, my hand dances in all directions adding the marks, forming the clay or laying the stitch.
Art
allows me to travel in ways I no longer can due to being mainly
housebound. There is flow and energy and movement, everything my
disability has taken away. My work has a deeper message of disability to portray and I sit at the intersection of a number of barriers to the mainstream art world, something I'm passionate about disrupting through my work and collaborations.
Should you wish to purchase any work for my Energy Drawings contact Jennifer Gilbert at info@jenniferlaurengallery.com.
For enquiries for all other works please contact me directly at caramac22@hotmail.com with a clear title so I don't miss your email. I'm also open to discussions around collaborations, commissions and exhibitions.
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Contact: caramac22@hotmail.com
3-6 March 2022 Outsider Art Fair, New York, Jennifer Lauren Gallery
27 Jan - 21 April 2022 'Another Space Within' Group Online Exhibition, Outside In
18th Jan - 18th March 2022 'Labyrinth' The Void Collective, Sharp Gallery, Brixton
November 2021 Podcasts for Working Class Women's Website with Charlotte Cooper and Marina Raven White
October 2021 Commissions for Working Class Women's Website
September 2021, Research work acquired for The Mental Health Museum, Wakefield website
August 2021 Winner of The College of Psychic Studies summer competition. Work acquired for their permanent collection
July 2021, Shapes & Patterns in Creativity, group exhibition, Yellow Edge Gallery, Portsmouth
May 2021 Accepted into Working Class Women Artists' North West Chapter
May 2021 The Void, art collective formed, 4 women artists, mainly housebound
April 2021 Podcast guest on The Art Newspaper, discussing disability, art and pandemic
September 2020, Flow Collective formed, 5 women artists who face significant barriers
May 2020, Make It Work, Talk at Sussex University
April 2020 Outside In, Artist of the Month