Caroline Marie Higgs

Born in London, 1980. Caroline Marie Higgs currently lives and works in Hove, East Sussex. I use photography to capture what is on the periphery of visual perception and on the edge of our consciousness, taking the qualities and distortions generated by the interplay of light and object, and translating these fragments into densely layered paintings, concentrating on the interpretation of shadows, silhouettes, and reflections. The resulting images oscillate or occupy a space between abstraction and figuration, and through the painting of these otherwise ephemeral fragments, these momentary perceptions and understandings are imbued with a subtle, sculptural solidity and presence, thus objectifying light and arresting transitory moments in form. Using the tools and methods of traditional oil painting, I'm investigating temporal and spatial perception in relation to memory, whilst attempting to unravel relationships between the peripheral, banal, and uncanny.

1999 - 2002, BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art (2:1), Camberwell College of Art, University for the Arts, London