Caroline Hands

Caroline Hands is a full time visual artist who works in painting, drawing, textile, batiks, feltmaking, copper and enamel, mosaic, 3D, photography, book illustration and many other mediums.

Caroline has always travelled – her camera catching a wealth of images from all over the world which now forms a large archive of visual material.

She has been visiting China since 2006. The generosity and kindness of her many Chinese friends and acquaintances has changed her life and fed her work enormously.

From the age of dot she painted, drew and made shelters and sculptures out of products from the natural environment.

As a full time artist, Caroline’s work continues to develop and expand. Her work explores the diversity and richness of different cultures. Work/paintings of movement, humour and dance bridge between East and West and changing times.

She went to Art College in London in the 1960s. After a start in a fashion course, making copper wigs
amongst other things, she pursued a mixed media course of her own – theatre design, photography, sculpture, general visual research. This was before mixed media courses were common place. She completed a fine art painting degree course later. She also worked a great deal in community arts in London and the West Midlands.

2019
Sept
Who's Holding The Reins 2
@Thames Side Studio
7th Nov - 10th Dec
Connections, Passages & Heart
@ RB12 Shoreditch
2018
22nd – 25th Nov KILPECK
Lino cuts made for the book Kilpeck (Five Seasons Press, 1981)
@ Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
5th – 11th Oct RISE UP IN JOY
@ Bermondsey Gallery, 29 Dockhead
26th July NETWORKING IN THE SKY
Adobe2 @ Chelsea River Side Flats
30th June – 1st July
South East London Wool and Textile Festival
9th – 10th June OPEN STUDIOS
@ Thames-Side Studios
7th March Artist talk ‘FROM THE ARK, PAGODAS AND BEYOND’
@ Thames-Side Studios – education space
2017
Oct 12th – Oct 15th #TRIBE17 International Art Festival
#TRIBE17 @The Bargehouse
OXO Tower Warf, South Bank
June 17th – June 25th ANIMALS IN THE LIGHT
Group show at Rickshaw House Gallery
Rowington Close, Paddington, London, W2 5TF
May 25th – June 3rd DRAWING OPEN
Group show at no format gallery
May 20th – 21st OPEN STUDIOS
studio 101 / unit 7 @ Thames-side Studios
2016
Dec 9th – Dec 20th GABRIEL FINE ARTS CHRISTMAS FAIR
Joint exhibition at Gabriel Fine Art
15 Skylines Village, London
Dec 9th – Dec 11th PAINTING OPEN
Joint exhibition at no format gallery
July – Nov WHITE BIRD FLEW TO BLUE
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