Carolyn Thompson Great Loves and Other Works at Eagle Gallery, London, 2014
My multi-disciplinary practice incorporates artist books, altered texts, installations, textiles, drawings and video. My work is concerned with language, process and fragmentation. I’m interested in the interconnectivity between words, place and time, and in durational activities such as reading, walking, writing and stitching as both process and performance.
I cut, edit, weave, fold, stitch, draw, erase, walk and re-write building new narratives using words taken from existing materials and documentation found in literary fiction and archival settings. Through these mediative, repetitive and sometimes performative actions, I investigate the links between language and the passing of time, or explore hidden narratives found in archival settings.
I’ve exhibited widely in the UK and internationally at institutions including Center for Book Arts, New York, MGLC International Centre for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, and MAK Vienna. My work can be found in several public collections.
Recent projects include: Vague Poetics (2023), commissioned by Matt’s Gallery, London; Silenced (2021), commissioned by Nasty Women Connecticut and Yale Institute of Sacred Music; The Last Walk Home (2020-21), a residency with North Yorkshire Archives and Chrysalis Arts; and Food Lovers (2020) commissioned by Imprints of the New Modernist Editing. Work from Post Moderns, initially shown at the Laurence Sterne Trust, won the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Prize People’s Book Art Award in 2020.
I’m represented by Eagle Gallery, London.