Caragh thuring biography of abraham

Caragh Thuring was born in Brussels in 1972 and has lived in the United Kingdom since 1973.

Artist talks: Sunday 6 October am: Abraham Cruzvillegas in conversation with Mark Godfrey Free, booking required.

A richly illustrated first monograph of artist Caragh Thuring, whose unique and layered paintings invite a boundless reimagining of her subjects.

Caragh Thuring was born in Brussels in She lives and works in London.

In this joint exhibition, Cruzvillegas presents a new wall-based work alongside his installation 'Autoritratto Pedonale con Sampietrino'.

Caragh Thuring was born in in Brussels.

Receiving a BA Hons in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University in 1995, she moved to London the same year and currently divides her time between London and Argyll in Scotland.

 

Thuring’s unique language relishes but undermines the inherent flatness of painting, destablising the viewer into reassessing how they have been conditioned to look and see.

Never making preparatory drawings, Thuring paints fluidly and intuitively, building and arranging imagery in opposition to traditional visual and logical hierarchies. In a constant filtering of the world, her fractured compositions of people and places interweave history, the present and the future into a glimpsed experience that’s both technological and human.

 

For recent works, Thuring has commissioned bespoke cloth to use as her canvas.

Digital renderings of previous paintings, photographs she ha