bio

Born 1959 in Cheltenham, Carolyn Quartermaine is an Anglo-Swiss artist and photographer based in London, the South of France and Venice.

She has exhibited widely and internationally since 1985 and her work is held in many private collections.

Fine art trained at Cheltenham College of Art and with an MA from the Royal College of Art, London; she has also been a visiting lecturer there since the late 80s and was made a visiting Professor.

Travelling extensively and working globally since the 80s she has created art works, spaces and interiors from Japan to NY to Paris, and is internationally regarded as an avant garde artist and creator, blurring boundaries between art and design.

She has been featured on over 40 front covers and worked as a contributing editor for leading international magazines and has an extensive bibliography. She was named Designer of the Year at Maison et Objects in Paris.

Her paintings, photography, textiles, and collages explore storytelling, capturing the emotion and uniqueness of a moment in time, creating collections and installations for leading design houses such as Baccarat, Givenchy, Vuitton, Ricard, Hermès and Montblanc, to consultancy and art direction for her international clients.

Her career is united by themes of history, literature, nature and philosophy.

She has concentrated in the past ten years on museum and gallery exhibitions and installations, working with huge scale cyanotypes, film, collage and photography.

current + selected exhibitions

ECC ESPACE CONSTANTIN CHARIOT , BRUSSELS , BELGIUM , PAREODOLES SEP10 -NOV 10 2024

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS , LONDON , SUMMER EXHIBITION , 18 JUNE -18 AUGUST 2024

CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL , LONDON , JUNE - DECEMBER 24

CONNOLLY , THE WOOD BETWEEN THE WORLDS PART 2 . OCTOBER -NOVEMBER 2022

CHELSEA ARTS CLUB , LONG CORRIDOR , THE WOOD BETWEEN THE WORLDS PART 1 OCTOBER 2022

TRISTAN HOARE GALLERY , THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS , 2022

THE GLADE AT SKETCH , 3 ROSES AND A KISS , 2022

Tristan Hoare Gallery, London - ‘Folds ‘, 2021

Connolly, London, ‘Blues’ 2020

Palazzo Mosto - 1885 San Polo, Venice Biennale, ‘Roses ‘, Venice 2019

Musee de la Peinture Jean Honore Fragonard , Grasse, ‘Where Flowers Dream’, 2017 - 2018

Connolly, London - ‘The Cyanotype Spring’, 2018

Chateau de Gudanes, France - Work in Progress, 2016 - 2022

Musee de la Toile de Jouy, France

PEARL LAM GALLERY National Art Museum, Peking

Château de Beloeil, Belgium

Musee d’art Moderne, Ostend

Chelsea Art Museum, NYC