Courageous dreaming oil on linen 75x100cm 2022
Artist Bio
Carrie is a practising fine artist and mentor working from Studio106 in Hove, East Sussex. She is an expressive figurative oil painter and the focus of her work is as much about the visceral quality of paint and mark making as it is the subject matter.
Carrie studied at the Lorenzo di Medici art institute in Florence and on the Turps banana correspondence course 2020 - 2022. Recent collaborations include contributor (written essay and grief workshop facilitator) to ‘the Aerodrome’ exhibition at Ikon gallery, Birmingham 2019. Also contributor to ‘A memorial to Michael Stanley’ prose and environmental sculpture project with Alec Finlay, Milton Keynes Gallery 2019. She also received Arts Council funding through a DYCP grant for her grief project in 2022.
Her work is held in many UK and International private collections.
Carrie is represented by Zuleika gallery in Woodstock,Oxfordshire.
Solo and group shows
Solo
*Upcoming - April 2024- ‘Dance with me in the sunlit pools’ Zuleika gallery, Oxford. 6th top 27th April 2024.
Show of New Work - April 2023 - Studio 106, Hove.
Carrie Stanley - November 2022 - Portland gallery, Brighton.
Group
Derwent Drawing Prize Show - Gallery@Oxo, London April 2024
Phony Art Collective - Lock up gallery, Brighton April 2024
A Room of One’s Own - Irving gallery, Oxford - March 2024
HOME group show with ArtCan -Downstairs at the Department Store, Brixton.. October 2023.
Under Their Skin- group show, One Paved Court - London September 2023
Phoenix artspace August 2023
Longlisted for Jacksons Art prize 2023
Longlisted for Contemporary British Painting prize 2023
The Drawing show - No Format gallery, Deptford May 4th to 15th 2023.
TART FACTORY - invited artist by Tart Gallery, London. 21st - 29th April.
Show of New Work - solo studio hang, 106 Coleridge street April 2/3/4 2023.
Inspirational Women Artists - God’s House Tower - A Space Arts, Southampton - ends 23/4/2023
Power of the pencil - group show - Artcan virtual exhibition March/April 2023.
Art on a postcard - Fitzrovia gallery March 2023 - selected by Mollie Barnes
Curated at Dorfold - group show with Zuleika gallery February 2023
London Art Fair - Zuleika gallery Jan 2023
Solo show - Portland, Brighton December 2022
Group show - Trinity Buoy Wharf drawing prize 2022/2023
Group show - Material Presence - Fitzrovia gallery, London- November 2022
‘Group show - Oxford art society Open Exhibition 20th - 27th August 2022.
Vibrant Journeys in paint’ -Two person show at The Stables gallery, Blenheim palace 10th June 2022 to January 2023 in association with Zuleika gallery, Woodstock.
group show ‘A Generous Space 2” the New Art Gallery, Walsall 20th May to 25th September 2022.
group show ‘The Art of Greiving’ At Albans museum 27th May -4th September 2022.
group show at Irving Contemporary Oxford as part of ‘A ROOM OF HER OWN’ until 24/4/2022
Work on show as part of ‘A Generous Space’ at Hastings Contemporary @artonsea until April 2022
Exhibited a part of In_Formation group show at Thameside gallery, London 8th -23rd January 2022
Exhibited in the ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ exhibition www.cohort.art (@Cohort.art) November 2021 to end Jan 2022
Two paintings selected for the winter show at Cameron Contemporary, Hove 19/11 2021 to end Feb 2022.
‘Si’ selected by Kate Bryan for ‘A Generous Space’ Hastings Contemporary 25/11 2021- 18/4/2022
Group show "‘Mirror Mirror’ online gallery @houseofsmalls 6/11 - 4/12 2021
Featured artist in Blanco gallery online Sketchbook Vol 2 - September 2021
Guest selector prize for their favourite painting - ‘Virago’ from the Oxford Art society annual exhibition at the Cloisters gallery, Oxford. Two works selected in all - September 2021
Painting- ‘Ultraviolence’ selected for Turps correspondence course group exhibition’ In Response’ at the Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts London 1st to 7th September 2021
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Two works selected for ‘Figurative art now’ in association with the Federation of British artists and Mall galleries. The show will run online from 7th July to 20th September 2021.
Featured artist Curator’s salon magazine due out May 2021
Work long listed for Jacksons Painting prize - March 2021.
Work selected for ‘Art for the heart’ charity fundraising exhibition 20/3/2021 - 20/4/2021
Work currently published in Artit magazine (issue 12) the focus of which is contemporary figurative and portraiture work.
2021 Cal del Nord virtual residency 21st - 28th March.
2020 two works selected and exhibited in Oxford Art Society’s Open exhibition (online).
2020 Portraits for NHS Heroes portraits highlighted in Google Arts and Culture online exhibition. One work is published in a book of the same name -released in Nov 2020. This work was selected by Kate Bryan as one of her favourites from the initiative.
2020 two works accepted for “Art for the heart” an Oxfordshire based charity fundraising exhibition.
2014 shortlisted for BP Portrait award,London
2012 shortlisted for the Mall galleries RS Portrait exhibition,London
2012 shortlisted for BP Portrait award, London