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Caroline Achaintre
Background
Caroline Achaintre (born December 1969) is a London-based mixed-media artist. Her art is highly influenced by Animism, Expressionism, Theatricality, and the Handmade. Much of her earlier work was in textiles, particularly wool, and Primitivist in style, though she has also worked in installation, and also in ink on paper and ceramics. Much of this work draws on traditions of carnival and tribal masks and the potential to both attract and repulse through the materials. Achaintre, who was born in Toulouse and raised near Nuremberg, received a scholarship at the Kunsthochschule in Halle before moving to London to study at the Chelsea College of Arts and then Goldsmiths, University of London before establishing a studio in Homerton, East London.
Accomplishments
- Caroline Achaintre initially started making tufted objects as a way to translate drawings into real space. To make her work Achaintre tufts each individual piece of yarn into a woven canvas base, a process which she likens to painting in wool. The length, texture, and color of each thread take on the qualities of expressionist painting. Achaintre uses wool because of its physicality, and its attractive but sometimes also repulsive attributes. Its natural fabric suggests something primitive, but also the technological precision and connoisseurship of post-industrial craft. These ideas are reflected in her compositions, which look like futuristic tribal masks. Achaintre is interested in masks because they represent duplicity: whether used for shamanism, theatre, or carnival, masks suggest a state where reality and the fantastical can exist at the same time.
- 3 Major institutions at Castello di Rivoli, Kunsthalle Basel, and Whitechapel.
- Major biennial at Baltic Triennial.
- Collected by noble private collector: Beth Rudin.
- reviewed by two major art publications: Artforum and Frieze.
References
https://www.artsy.net/artist/caroline-achaintre/about https://www.frieze.com/article/caroline-achaintre https://aestheticamagazine.com/qa-caroline-achaintre-baltic/ https://rebeccauffindell.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/caroline-achaintre/ https://artuk.org/discover/artists/achaintre-caroline-b-1969 https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/caroline_achaintre https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/450065/caroline-achaintreshiftings/ https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2017/november/13/caroline-achaintre-why-i-create/