carrie stanley
I use my practise to try and make sense of my place in the world as an artist, woman, mother and widow. It’s an attempt at a kind of personal anthropology in which I use photography, memory, imagination and sensual responses to materials and my environment to create new realities.
These realities embrace a multi disciplinary approach which emerges through a visceral and intuitive process. Making work, for me, is a transformative act of liberation and acceptance of trauma and grief, creating and projecting a new vision for human experience. An act of reverence for mortality and rebirth allowing freedom of play and immersion in a bigger nature.
Group shows
Upcoming and current
Palm House, Sussex as part of Artists Open Houses 2025.
‘Incidentals' The Bell House, Dulwich - May 2025
Bel Fire Fayre, Devil's Dyke Sussex - throughout May 2025
Town house open, Town house Spitalfields , August – September 2024
Newhaven Art Projects opencall – 24 th August to September 12th 2024
Past;
Derwent drawing prize – Oxo gallery, London 2024
Phony art collective - Lock up gallery, Hove 2024
A room of their own – Irving gallery , Oxford 2024
Under their skin - One Paved court , London- September 2023
Longlisted Jacksons art prize 2023
Longlisted CBP prize 2023
The drawing show - No Format gallery, Deptford May 2023
Art on a Postcard - International Women’s day auction -selected by Mollie Barnes- Fitzrovia gallery, London March 2023
Inspirational women artists - Aspace arts, Southampton April 2023
Curated at Dorford - group show with Zuleika gallery February 2023 - Dorford hall,Cheshire
London Art Fair - Zuleika gallery Jan 2023
Cab run, Brighton - November 2022
Material presence, Fitzrovia gallery London -November 2022
Oxford Art Society members exhibition -October 2022
Trinity Buoy Wharf drawing prize exhibition 2022/2023
Vibrant Journeys in paint -Two person show at The Stables gallery, Blenheim palace June 2022 to January 2023 in association with Zuleika gallery, Woodstock.
A Generous Space ASP2 - the New Art Gallery, Walsall May to September 2022.
The Art of Grieving -St Albans museum, May - September 2022.
A Room of her Own - Irving Contemporary, Oxford April/May 2022
Oxford Art Society members exhibition - Kendrew Barn, Oxford -February 2022
In_Formation - Thameside gallery, London - January 2022
Figurative Art Now - Mall galleries, London 2021 ( two works selected)
Shortlisted for Jackson’s art prize 2021
Solo shows
Solo show ‘Benthic Blues’ at Brighton Art Space, February 2025
Solo show with Zuleika gallery, Oxford April 2024
Portland gallery, Brighton November 2022
Prizes, awards and curation
White Pube creatives grant October 2022
Arts Council DYCP award - February to December 2022
Overall winner Oxford Art society open exhibition August 2021
Co curator - The Aerodrome, Ikon Gallery Birmingham 2019
Publications and features
The Flying Fruit Bowl – Instagram feature May 2024
Private View Blog – Instagram feature 2022
Blanco gallery featured artist August 2022
Featured artist - ArtSeen magazine May 2021
‘M and I’ essay for the Aerodrome exhibition catalogue May 2019.
Education
Turps Banana Art School correspondence course June 2020-June 2022
Lorenzo di Medici Art institute, `Florence 1991-1993
Residencies and courses
June 2024 – Body and Place – The ColabArt
May 2023 – Watermarks – Drawing Correspondance UK
May 2022 – Creative residency (as part of my DYCP grant) Scribendi studio barge – Small Bells Ring – Studio Morrison.
Helping Artists Keep Going
Axis is an artist-led charity supporting contemporary visual artists with resources, connection, and visibility.