https://www.carolinelisaallen.art/installations daily 0.75 2018-07-16 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/t/5b4c1f711ae6cf6f422821cf/1531240997507/ Installations https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/5b44b6aa562fa7fde605fac0/5b44e14f1ae6cff42b6b876d/1531240997507/IMG_5886.JPG Installations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531241229437-Q06NUQS0F5H3V157IKJM/fullsizeoutput_14b6.jpeg Installations - Divine Interventions Series The Fold as Contemplation - Compton Verney Art Gallery It gathers and is both the gap (between its two edges) and the continuity between them. Contemplation has this paradoxical form. It blurs the difference between the object and the subject. The contemplator forgets themselves as a separate subject, feels themselves to belong to what they contemplate, encompassed by it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531241344464-68VYLUSOT7LFK8CK5BJY/IMG_6588.JPG Installations - Divine Interventions Series The Fold as Prayer - Hereford Cathedral The folds reveal surprises. Where they veil they simultaneously reveal the essence of the hidden thing. They are an opening onto something else beyond the film of reality. They call to another reality, in the gap, between the visible and the invisible and speak of a transcendental visitation. https://www.carolinelisaallen.art/works daily 0.75 2020-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531237404323-3S422TXBU7HURBFD32C9/IMG_6209.JPG The Anatomy of Cloth - The Anatomy of Cloth My work is an exploration into the long tradition of drapery within the history of art from antiquity to the present day. I am interested in what, if anything, this rich historical presence signifies, particularly when considered as a possible signifier for the inexplicable… those moments when we find ourselves lost for words. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531237404323-3S422TXBU7HURBFD32C9/IMG_6209.JPG The Anatomy of Cloth - The Anatomy of Cloth My work is an exploration into the long tradition of drapery within the history of art from antiquity to the present day. I am interested in what, if anything, this rich historical presence signifies, particularly when considered as a possible signifier for the inexplicable… those moments when we find ourselves lost for words. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531239114787-CNRAGX8EE46827275F0R/IMG_6216.JPG The Anatomy of Cloth In 1909 A.L.Baldry stressed the importance of drapery in the fine arts, maintaining it as second only to flesh-painting. He went on to bemoan the fact that an insufficient amount of attention was given to it in art schools. He considered the study of drapery as based on knowledge of a kind of ‘anatomy of cloth’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531239179974-0RK9O62HNGUN2YWUWFGI/IMG_6224.JPG The Anatomy of Cloth The intention of my work is to make art that lifts us from the everyday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531240408648-G46DYGG5517WAZ1T10K9/fullsizeoutput_15fc.jpeg The Anatomy of Cloth I am interested in exploring the unknown via the sense of wonder that we can often feel when we allow ourselves to intuitively respond to the world around us. Artists and thinkers who explore notions of the sublime, perception and parallel worlds inform my practice and my research. https://www.carolinelisaallen.art/landscapes-beyond-language daily 0.75 2020-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531717430174-KGQ9GOQ7Q7L4R1YXISYR/Show+2.jpg Sightings And what is in plain sight to see stops us seeing - this is monstrous magic - the work of division and separation. Yet look again… look again for as long as you can… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531717430174-KGQ9GOQ7Q7L4R1YXISYR/Show+2.jpg Sightings And what is in plain sight to see stops us seeing - this is monstrous magic - the work of division and separation. Yet look again… look again for as long as you can… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531717449461-PU0M7JO9F1H5TSWR2W2J/Show+1.jpg Sightings Those figures were asking every one of us to ‘see’ what can’t be brought to sight. Figures calling… Calling for us to become ‘seers’ again… to become human again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1531717465442-G5MNNPKQNLP1AD69PG5T/Show+3.jpg Sightings Anyone whomsoever whatsoever can be called. Back to where we began. https://www.carolinelisaallen.art/presenting-the-invisible daily 0.75 2020-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1535930780952-HE6R11F55RVZ4NEIMZO3/fullsizeoutput_183b.jpeg Searchings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1535930780952-HE6R11F55RVZ4NEIMZO3/fullsizeoutput_183b.jpeg Searchings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1535930752012-ZKUXILBR45XSWGE66XQM/fullsizeoutput_183e.jpeg Searchings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1535930802875-K9CFN0FDHY4SI7LS66L8/fullsizeoutput_183c.jpeg Searchings https://www.carolinelisaallen.art/just-visiting-this-planet daily 0.75 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739545200053-SJQ9VYBFPPIYOTLT2XLP/IMG_4451.jpeg Just Visiting this Planet - Just Visiting this Planet I, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739545200053-SJQ9VYBFPPIYOTLT2XLP/IMG_4451.jpeg Just Visiting this Planet - Just Visiting this Planet I, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739544375977-XKYERC1U1M06ADMAJ504/image-asset.jpg Just Visiting this Planet - Just Visiting this Planet I, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739544418545-NO8YO573OZ0VE1X6ALN7/image-asset.jpg Just Visiting this Planet - Just Visiting this Planet II, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739542661043-FUZTUZ4UD7YCQ7WVR7CJ/image-asset.jpeg Just Visiting this Planet - Just Visiting this Planet III, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739542712534-5C1QTP6NA7XA4D1M7DNS/image-asset.jpeg Just Visiting this Planet - Just Visiting this Planet IV, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739542761729-ZS2KAG6VCEMJE94SMEFM/image-asset.jpeg Just Visiting this Planet - Just Visiting this Planet V, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739542835470-DL1NSTVV1GD0Z31N4ZUO/image-asset.jpeg Just Visiting this Planet - Just Visiting this Planet VI, 2025 https://www.carolinelisaallen.art/horned-running-woman-of-hergest daily 1.0 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739546039541-ZN7PDTT7JTITBGYEQHL8/image-asset.jpeg Running Horned Woman of Hergest - Ancestral imaginings: Running Horned Woman of Hergest I, 2025 High in the rocky landscapes of the northern Sahara plateau lies a remarkable cave painting, dating back 6,000 years, of a horned woman… running. Her femininity is unmistakable, as her profile reveals prominent breasts and a rounded belly. With her knees bent and arms outstretched, she embodies a graceful athleticism. Tassels dance from her waist and limbs, while her body is painted with intricate dots and stripes. Similar fabrics and markings decorate her curved horns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739546039541-ZN7PDTT7JTITBGYEQHL8/image-asset.jpeg Running Horned Woman of Hergest - Ancestral imaginings: Running Horned Woman of Hergest I, 2025 High in the rocky landscapes of the northern Sahara plateau lies a remarkable cave painting, dating back 6,000 years, of a horned woman… running. Her femininity is unmistakable, as her profile reveals prominent breasts and a rounded belly. With her knees bent and arms outstretched, she embodies a graceful athleticism. Tassels dance from her waist and limbs, while her body is painted with intricate dots and stripes. Similar fabrics and markings decorate her curved horns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739545959479-CKAH9BZS05WR7OUIAB7F/image-asset.jpeg Running Horned Woman of Hergest - Ancestral imaginings: Running Horned Woman of Hergest II, 2025 I first encountered the Running Horned Woman whilst listening to a podcast by poet and runner, Helen Mort. It was easy to imagine a similar mythical figure striding out over my perfect hill - Hergest Ridge, the hill I run over every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739545753188-20RZGR4GVEWZU3Z8BMHD/image-asset.jpeg Running Horned Woman of Hergest - Ancestral imaginings: Running Horned Woman of Hergest III, 2025 The magic of this hill and the surrounding landscape has inspired two recent exhibitions I co-curated at RidgeBank Contemporary Art Space in Kington. The first celebrated the Hindwell Enclosure, a Neolithic oval timber henge believed to be a site for mass rituals and festivities. The second explored three neighbouring hills who’s geological formation dates back 700 million years to underground volcanic activity. Surrounded by these extraordinary and mysterious places it's easy to picture Hergest Ridge as the backdrop for its own legendary horned woman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44b606a9e02888e9d0e2d1/1739815573746-R16EODOYN098XE5NSQ8S/image-asset.jpeg Running Horned Woman of Hergest - Running Horned Woman, Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria. As a work of art Running Horned Woman conjures something unseen and imagined, we can only speculate as to why she ran. Was it ritualistic? Was she a hunter? 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