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The 26th recipient of The Working Class Creatives Grant is Carrie Stanley, a figurative artist based in Brighton. We really enjoyed her paintings: fingers with hula hoops, bodies caught in hot colours, low angles, flowers painted like petals melting into water, a cake with a floppy rocket balancing on top of it, scratchy shadowy trees. When Stanley got in touch with us, she also shared information about the research & development project she is undergoing at the moment about grief as a suicide widow. We felt like it could be an important time to grant this to her so she can continue looking into these subjects as her R&D time comes to an end next month.
BIO: Carrie Stanley is British figurative artist based in Brighton, England. She was a student on the Turps Banana Correspondence Course 2020-2022 and was awarded an Arts Council DYCP grant in February this year to develop her work around trauma and suicide loss. She uses the mediums of painting and drawing to make work that is visceral, physical and colourful and that reflect emotional and psychological responses to her subjects. Carrie often uses family as a starting point, these works often develop through an automatic process to allow for memory and personal symbolism to emerge. She’s currently researching ways to access healing through creative imaging, the use of petunias in shamanic journeying and alternative paint surfaces including velvet and interfacing.
LINKS:
Instagram @carriestanleyartist
