Caroline Rudge
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Rudge works in the traditional Medieval medium of Egg Tempera with gold leaf, to create modern day icon paintings exploring themes of self and motherhood.
Working with intricate and multi-layered techniques and media, Rudge explores the self as characters through realistic portraiture, and found natural objects, such as taxidermy, eggs and nests.
These objects are used as metaphors for the self, evoking a fusion of icon painting and memento mori. By using storytelling , memory and referencing historical and Medieval religious themes, Rudge is concerned with ideas of motherhood, fertility, loss, attachment and healing.
This allows her to interconnect themes of strength and vulnerability, beauty and revulsion, love and burden, isolation and independence, whilst juxtaposing classic ideology with contemporary imagery .
To enhance Rudge’s practice, and bring added depth and layers of symbolism, she is exploring new ways of working with and combining long-established painting techniques with modern media and animation to create moving portraits, vignettes and short films.
Rudge’s client-led stop-motion animations use painstaking painting techniques and paper cut-outs to produce diverse and memorable short films, many of which have been nominated for awards and shown in film festivals worldwide.
As an illustrator, she uses printmaking techniques, particularly tetrapak drypoint, to produce detailed and multi-layered images with a surreal and dreamlike quality.
Rudge also runs an extensive workshop programme from her studio at Pound Arts in Corsham, and 2023/24 sees her work in collaboration with artist Rachel Heard to deliver a participatory arts and public art project , PACT.
