caroline hall MA 2012
Mar 24, 2016
caroline hall MA
2012
Caroline Hall
biography
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Caroline Hall worked as a television reporter and presenter for the BBC for 15 years before
moving to Berlin with her family in 2000. In 2005 she graduated from Winchester School of Art with a degree in Visual Art, (first class), and completed her Masters in Painting in 2007. Within a year she was taken on by emerging artist specialists degree.com in London. She held her first solo exhibition in London in 2009 after being selected as a finalist in the Agora International Art Prize in New York.
Caroline is regularly selected for group exhibitions and has staged several solo shows in East London’s celebrated Vyner Street. Her work is popular among collectors in the UK and abroad and was recently selected for the launch of Carnival’s flagship offices in Southampton. Last
year pixels paused 3 was shortlisted for the prestigious Threadneedle Prize. This year she will
be exhibiting at Weston Park in Shropshire, in London, and also in Hampshire. Caroline was
named as an Artist to Watch, by degreeArt last year, and is now part of their elite contemporary collective.
Chapter 1
paintings
statement
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All my paintings reflect a life surrounded by the moving image. They explore the boundaries between video and painting, the traditional and the contemporary. The pixelsʼ series is driven by a process - a filming and editing sequence which allows me to deconstruct the digital image deliberately removing all trace of narrative. The resulting pixel video is then projected onto the surface of the canvas while I work.
More recently, for the ‘passing series’ I have been using video of filmed journies as a springboard. My subject matter is the fleeting moment, but my method of working means each painting takes days and sometimes weeks to complete. It is this pairing of opposites, the fact that I am attempting to make the transient tangible, that intrigues me.
Caroline Hall 2012
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passing Avington Wood, spring 2oil on board107 x 77cm
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passing sea Cape Townoil on board106 x 70cm
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passing sea Cape Town 2oil on board106 x 70cm
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passing Long Walk, Summeroil on aluminium114 x 95cm
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Passing Solent Rainoil on aluminium114 x 95cm
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Winchester to Waterloo, after the rain (train journies)oil on aluminium114 x 95cm
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Passing Sea 8oil on aluminium42 x 57cm
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Passing Sea 9oil on aluminium42 x 57cm
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Attempt to capture moving pixels no 35acrylic on canvas107 x 70cm
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Pixels paused (oxide red)oil on aluminium114 x 95
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Pixels paused 9oil on aluminium42 x 57cm
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Pixels paused 4oil on canvas160 x 107cm
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Pixels paused 12oil on aluminium116 x 97cm
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Attempt to capture moving pixels no 39oil on canvas81 x 81cm
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Attempt to capture moving pixels no 34oil on aluminium114 x 95cm
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Passing Easton sunsetoil on aluminium42 x 57cm
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Passing bluebells, 4oil on aluminium114 x 95cm
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Pixels paused 3 (mars black)oil on aluminium116 x 97cm
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Pixels paused 6oil on aluminium42 x 57cm
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Attempt to capture moving pixels no 32oil on aluminium42 x 57cm
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Pixels paused 5oil on aluminium42 x 57cm
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Attempt to capture moving pixels no 38oil on canvas81 x 81cm
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Pixels paused 11oil on aluminium71 x 71cm
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Pixels paused 2 (pthalocyanine blue)oil on aluminium116 x 97cm
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Pixels paused 7oil on aluminium42 x 57cm
Passing Autumn trees (Liquid Amber)oil on aluminium116 x 97cm
Chapter 2
Limited edition prints
Boats 1monoprint and original painting on paper
Thoughtsmonoprint and original painting on paper
Chapter 3
Photographs
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With this series of photographs I am quite literally painting with light. By focusing on the colours and textures provided by nature - sunshine on frosted grass, light filtering through leaves - I am provided with a readymade palette. There is no trickery involved, no extensive digital processing, the images are the result of the simplest of camera gestures. A combination of capture process and pattern transforms an ordinary landscape into something extraordinary and instills a sense of dynamism into a subject which is essentially still.
These photographs are available as limited edition prints on archive paper or mounted onto aluminium.
light paintings
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Autumn light painting - tree canopy 1limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - tree canopy 2 limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - tree canopy 3limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - tree canopy 4limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - tree canopy 5limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - tree canopy 6limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - tree canopy 7limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - tree canopy 8limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - mahonia 1limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - mahonia 2limited edition print
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Autumn light painting - mahonia 3limited edition print
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February light painting - 1limited edition print
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February light painting - 2limited edition print
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February light painting - 3limited edition print
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February light painting - 4limited edition print
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February light painting - 5limited edition print
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February light painting - 6limited edition print
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February light painting - 7limited edition print
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February light painting - 8limited edition print
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February light painting - 10limited edition print
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February light painting - 11limited edition print
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February light painting - 12limited edition print
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February light painting - 13limited edition print
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February light painting - 14limited edition print
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February light painting - 15limited edition print
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February light painting - 16limited edition print
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February light painting - 17limited edition print
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February light painting 18limited edition print
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February light painting - 19limited edition print
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April light painting 1limited edition print
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April light painting 2limited edition print
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Hilliers Arboretum 1limited edition print
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Hilliers Arboretum 2limited edition print
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Hilliers Arboretum 3 (cherry blossom)limited edition print
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Hilliers Arboretum 4 (cherry blossom)limited edition print
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Hilliers Arboretum 5 (cherry blossom)limited edition print
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Hilliers Arboretum 6 (cherry blossom)limited edition print
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Hilliers Arboretum 7 (cherry blossom)limited edition print
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Hilliers Arboretum 8 (cherry blossom)limited edition print