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Artist Exhibitions:
FORTHCOMING SHOWS
2003 - WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL,
LONDON
SOLO SHOWS
APRIL - MAY 00 - "FOLKLORE
FAIRIES AND FABLES 2" , THE
ICE HOUSE, HOLLAND PARK
NOVEMBER 99- MARCH 00 -
PHOTOFOLIO, SALTS MILL,
SALTAIRE, SHIPLEY
NOVEMBER - MARCH 99 -
BROADCASTING HOUSE, BBC,
MANCHESTER
APRIL 1998 - "FOLKLORE,
FAIRIES, AND FABLES 1" THE ICE
HOUSE, HOLLAND PARK,
KENSINGTON.
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Artist Reviews:
Myth Maker – from The
Express, April 22, 2000 by
Jane Warren
When she was 6 years old her
father read Caroline Blackburn
a series of extravagant
bedtime stories – the entire
libretti of Wagner’s ring
cycle. With its tales of
Scandinavian and Teutonic
mythology, it captivated the
little girl who ...
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Artist Statement for Caroline Blackburn
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Beauty seems to me to have become a thing that is greatly undervalued. Sometime in the twentieth century it became assciated with a wealthy elite, a rarefied posturing that did not speak to ordinary people. I think the reverse it true. Beauty is the most egalatarian thing there is. Everybody can appreciate it regardless of age, sex, education, colour, religion, or status. Everyone has their own idea of what is beautiful and nothing can change that. But beauty also serves a vital function. It can uplift or transform the viewer. It gives faith and strength in a world which is ridden with ugliness that it is worth struggling on. Those moments that each of us occasionally have when we are momentarily lifted into a purer world are moments we treasure. And my work hopes to refledt that.
All the pictures I do are meticulously constructed whether it be a very complex work such as one of the figures from folklore and mythology, or a relatively simple one such as a flower. Everything is studio based and photographed in black and white. I then process and print the film myself before hand colouring each print with special photographic dyes. This means that I can control the colour and feel of each picture precisely as well as making each final image totally unique. For the Mythological figures and the opera pictures I make a lot of the costumes and props myself. The cloak for the "Swan Maiden" took two months to make from collecting the feathers from a farm to the final product. I build the sets myself and add as much metaphorical detail as I can. I always have a strong sense of the layered themes in each picture long before I start construction.
The whole process is a long slow one but I keep my edition runs small so that I don't become stale and mass produce work. The craft that underlies the work is all real, there are no digital techniques involved - what you see is what I made. I print on double weight fibre paper and mount on acid free card.
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