‘Embroideries’, Cullinan Richards

HS Projects is delighted to present embroideries by Cullinan Richards, two unique works from an ongoing series of works exploring variations on the grid and triangle, doubling and oscillating between ghosts of figuration and a feminine abstraction. This image plays with shadows cast on the studio floor by past works. 

Weaving a feminine narrative around temporality and the act of looking, Cullinan Richards’ work is a mix of documentation that melds with fiction and lived personal histories to question the position of the artwork. 

Charlotte Cullinan (b.1959 UK) and Jeanine Richards (b.1968 UK) have been working together since 1998 and are known for their large-scale interventions positioning painting as part of a wider mise-en-scene. 

The inevitable doubling that occurs between them has developed into a highly personal visual language borrowing from film, stories and expressionist painting reflecting a particularly feminine relationship to the medium of paint.   

Cullinan Richards have exhibited nationally and internationally, including: EndGame, Secci Gallery, Pietrosanta, Italy (2023); Positions Part One, Alma Pearl Gallery, London (2023); Being Sassy, dispari & dispari project, Berlin (2018); Shadowed Forms, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen (2018); Being Sassy, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver BC (2017); Of Other Spaces, Cooper Gallery, Dundee (2016); Dora, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2015); Paradigm Store, Howick Place, London (2014).

Cullinan Richards were selected as part of the British Art Show 7: Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham; Hayward Gallery, London; Tramway, Glasgow; Royal William Yard, Plymouth (2011) touring exhibition.

Cullinan Richards have completed residency programs at Jute Museum & Cooper Gallery (2016), CCA Artists-in-Residence Program, CCA Adratx, Mallorca, Spain (2013) and Positions, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (2010).

‘Embroideries’ was at 5 Marble Arch from January 2024 to July 2024.