© Caroline Gray 2010

Busy times for Caroline Gray, one of Blue Rim’s printmakers. You may recall Caroline’s monochrome etchings that were featured on our site last year. Since then, she has been branching out into illustration and designing greeting cards sold at the V&A Museum, Urban Outfitters and Waterstones. Blue Rim Gallery recently caught up with Caroline to find out what she was up to in her new base in Rhode Island, in the US…

“Over the past year in Providence, RI, I have been enrolled in the Children’s Book Illustration program at the Rhode Island School of Design. By the end of the program, I will have developed a substantial portfolio of illustration work, and will be ready to embark on a career as a Children’s Book Illustrator! As well encouraging the development of an identifiable personal style, the courses in this program have focused on the publishing industry itself. Alongside this I have been developing some new greeting card designs, also geared to a juvenile market. I have been working increasingly in three-dimensional media and gouache.”

More news from all other Blue Rim artists to come! If you’d like more information about Caroline Gray’s new work, then just email petra@bluerimgallery.net.

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 Last night marked the launch of the 5th issue of Volume Magazine at GSK Contemporary, at the Royal Academy of Arts. Our up-and-coming artist, Caroline Gray, has a double-page spread in this quarterly issue. Here, she showcases a series of paintings that explore a distorted and unsettling image of the natural world - similar to her series of etchings. These paintings depict isolated taxidermic specimens. These former shells of living creatures possess an undoubtedly sinister quality. What was once living and breathing is transformed, through evisceration, into an object of human curiosity. The specimens on view seem to call into question the classifiction of the subject matter: are they perceived as animal portraiture or still life? They occupy a tenuous position between the two genres. Viewings can be arranged to see this work. For more information please contact us here.