(lives and works between Cambridge and London)
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CPW is an artist that makes exuberant sculptures, installations and performances ranging from theatrical landscapes to intimate grottos, blending ancient esoterica with contemporary vernaculars of play and spectacle. Sculptures are handcrafted in jesmonite, ceramic, metal and combine cartoon logic with a promiscuous use of symbols. Carnivalesque and grotesque undercurrents run through the work which centre around the stories, from fictional to natural history, that have been passed on through time to make sense of our existence. Sculptures take figurative, architectural, mechanical and mythical forms which accumulate and are encouraged to shift and mutate through repetition, reflection and distortion. There are recurring references to water, journeys, machines, human survival, evolution and belief. Expanding the research, collaborations with dancers flesh out our Sisyphean and bodily experience of the environment.
In 2024 CPW was commissioned by the Colab to create a fountain for the roof terrace above Temple Tube station. Auguries through the Mist will remain at the site until Spring 2026. Other exhibitions and commissions include The Goddess, The Diety and the Cyborg at The Women’s Art Collection Murray Edwards College Cambridge, 2024; Crystalis, site specific installation Zabludowicz Collection Finland, 2023; Tilt Shift: Shadows of the Seasoned Sun, Southwark Park Galleries, 2022; The Gates of Apophenia, Bosse & Baum London, 2019; Command Lines, Void Gallery Northern Ireland, 2019; Lessness, still quorum, performance, Serpentine Galleries, London, 2018, Tongue Town, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, 2017; Cache, Art Night Associate Programme, London, 2017.
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CPW received a MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2011 where she held the Eric and Jean Cass Sculpture Award and a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art London in 2009. She was awarded the Mother Art Prize, 2018. She was Artist in Residence at the Warburg Institute 2018-19 and undertook the Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome in 2012-13. As well as being reviewed widely her work is discussed by Dr Edwin Coomasaru in ‘British Art and the Environment, Changes, Challenges and Responses since the Industrial Revolution’ published by Routledge in 2021.
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