Charlotte Cullinan
Charlotte Cullinan, based in London, is currently Professor of Fine Art at Kingston University, London. She was a selector for the Bow Arts Trust Open 2013, London, and for the New Contemporaries 2012 (Liverpool Biennial and ICA, London). She has worked with Jeanine Richards since 1998 as the artists’ duo Cullinan Richards, working primarily within the area of painting, and relationship of paintings to the structure of the exhibition, as well as painting as performance. They are interested in the use of the exhibition as a material context within which discrete objects are choreographed and re-arranged to give a sense of instability or slippage of material and meaning. Their work, which couples aspects of conventional exhibition-making with more contingent, gestural and provisional approaches, includes making plastic paintings meant to deliberately turn away from the idea of “strong” painting, to risk inconsequence and collapse.
Solo exhibitions: 2013 The Ultimate Materiality of Women Part II, 20-21 Visual Art Centre, Scunthorpe (GB). 2011 Black lights, CAR Projects, Bologna. 2010 Collapse version v, Dispari&Dispari Projects, Reggio Emilia (I). First unaffected unaffected formal effects last, Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee (GB). Maradona two – for four, The LAB, Dublin. Positions: Cavegirl, Laing Gallery, Newcastle (GB).
Group exhibitions: 2013 STAG, Dispari&Dispari Project, Reggio Emilia (IT). EROGENOUS ZONE, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin. 2012 Recent British Painting, GRIMM, Amsterdam. Wide open school, Hayward Gallery, London. 2012–2010 British art show 7, Hayward Gallery, London. Tramway, Glasgow, Plymouth. 2011 The Painting Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Fountain Show, Dispari&Dispari Project, Reggio Emilia (IT).
Publications
Recent British Painting, exh. cat. GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam 2012.
John Moores Painting Prize 2012, exh. cat. National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool 2012.
Eileen Daly, Rebecca Heald (eds.), Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012, London 2012.
Cullinan Richards, Collapse 08-2011, AND, London 2011.