Cullinan Richards
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OverviewCharlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards are an artist duo working collaboratively since 1998 who focus on painting through a variety of means. By producing paintings together they explore a synthesis between painting as image and painting as object and a wider contemporary conversation around expanded painting.
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.
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WorksExhibitions
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Cullinan Richards
Second Act. Plot Twist 15 Nov - 21 Dec 2024Cullinan Richards: Second Act. Plot Twist follows Retrospective, the first iteration of Cullinan Richards’ solo exhibition at Alma Pearl. Second Act is defined as “a second period or stage of...Read more -
Cullinan Richards
Retrospective 27 Sep - 2 Nov 2024Alma Pearl is pleased to announce Cullinan Richards: Retrospective, the first solo exhibition with the gallery since announcing their representation. In the last two decades, this pioneering artist duo has...Read more -
Bitch Magic
26 Jan - 2 Mar 2024Alma Pearl is pleased to present Bitch Magic, an exhibition curated by gallery founder Celeste Baracchi. The exhibition brings together a cross-generational group of women and non-binary artists who align...Read more -
Positions, Part One
28 Apr - 10 Jun 2023Positions, part one runs 28 April to 10 June with a private view on Thursday, 27 April 6-9pm; Positions, part two will run from 23 June-3 August.Read more
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Cullinan + Richards
Artforum, review by Barry Schwabsky -
Why artists Cullinan Richards chose Scunthorpe when chips were down
The Guardian, article by Michelle Lally -
Cullinan Richards: A visit to the studio, 9 December 2022, Painting Fluid Thinking
Journal of Contemporary Painting, Joan Key -
Artist Duo Cullinan Richards Will Take Over London’s Alma Pearl Gallery With a Career-Spanning Show
artnet, text by Annikka Olsen