‘Forcibly Bewitched’, Cullinan Richards
HS Projects is delighted to present Forcibly Bewitched by Cullinan Richards, an edition of prints from an ongoing series of works on paper exploring variations on the grid and triangle, doubling and oscillating between ghosts of figuration and a feminine abstraction. This image extends the repeated triangle patterns into a forest scene inhabited by floating abstracted figures.
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.
Forcibly Bewitched
Silk screen print on archival paper
70 x 100 cms
Signed edition of 29 (black and silver)
Signed edition of 30 (green and silver)
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).
‘Forcibly Bewitched’ was at 5 Marble Arch from July 2023 to January 2024.