SOFT PAINTINGS

The Soft Paintings extend Caroline Christie-Coxon’s process-led painting practice beyond the fixed support of the canvas. Developed on flexible, permeable textiles, they retain the language and materiality of painting while becoming foldable, transportable and responsive to movement.

Released from the frame, the painted surface can bend, drape, gather, suspend and shift. Gravity becomes increasingly visible within the work, while the absence of a rigid support allows each painting to occupy space differently with every activation.

This mobility has enabled the Soft Paintings to move beyond the studio and into relationship with the body and landscape. They may be worn as veil or mantle, suspended within space, immersed in water or temporarily placed within land, where wind, water, gravity, light and movement participate in their changing form.

Their permeability is both physical and experiential. Rather than remaining autonomous objects, the Soft Paintings become responsive surfaces through which painting encounters body, place and elemental conditions.

Designed to be carried, reused and reconfigured, they also enable a low-impact approach to site-responsive practice. Their presence within landscape is temporary: they enter, respond and leave without seeking to permanently mark the place.

The Soft Paintings represent an important expansion within Christie-Coxon’s practice — not a departure from painting, but painting becoming mobile, porous and relational.


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