Cullinan Richards

Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards have worked collaboratively since 1998. Within their large-scale installations, Cullinan Richards explore themes including history, family, and shared social and cultural experiences. The resulting works are a mix of documentation that melds with fiction and lived personal histories to question the position of the artwork and the structure of an exhibition.

Exhibition making is a fundamental aspect of Cullinan Richards’ practice. The overall presentation of their work–comprised of discrete elements including painting, objects and lighting–is offered as a proposition or mise-en-scene to receive social interaction within and beyond a gallery through conversation, and exchange.

Their work was featured in Artforum, The Guardian, Art Monthly, and more. They were amongst the selectors of New Contemporaries 2012 and in 2013 they established 4Cose Italian grocery store and art installation with Andrea Sassi at the front of their studio on Vyner Street, London.

Exhibitions include 6th Sharjah International Biennial, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (2003); Independence, South London Gallery, London (2003);  Edge of the Real–A Painting Show, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2004); British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham; Hayward Gallery, London; Tramway, Glasgow; Royal William Yard, Plymouth (2010); Recent British Painting, GRIMM, Amsterdam (2012); Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery, London (2012); Goodbye Charles, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2017); Being Sassy, Dispari&Dispari Project, Berlin (2018); Shadowed Forms, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen (2018); ENDGAME, Secci, Pietrasanta (2023); and Positions, Alma Pearl, London (2023), amongst others.

Cullinan Richards have work in the Arts Council Collection UK, Marx Collection, Berlin, Sassi family collection Reggio Emilia, Italy, and other private collections.