Lot 163 - Corinna Button - In a Dream
Lot 163 - Corinna Button - In a Dream

Lot 163 - Corinna Button - In a Dream

Collage, acrylic, graphite and oil on paper

2023

A6 (10x15cm)

Original Artwork

Signed on Verso

This auction is raising proceeds for The Hepatitis C Trust

ARTIST INFO

About 

After completing a BA honors degree in painting, I pursued a printmaking postgraduate degree in the UK, where I am from. It was during this time that I was impacted by the German Expressionists, whose works, particularly in printmaking, left an indelible impression on me. I dedicated many subsequent years to developing my work in etching and other forms of printmaking. Today, printmaking continues to be a medium that intrigues me and is hugely influential in the way I approach my painting and sculpture. 

People are the subjects of my work and I am intrigued by moments that, despite initially appearing quite commonplace, are (for me) charged with great significance and meaning. My inspiration is drawn from experiences or predicaments I encounter in daily life, such as social gatherings, images from social media and words from a song or a poem. All these generate ideas for themes that I can build upon, “dress-up” and weave into my work. I compose figures either in groupings or as a single figure or just a face. My aim is not to create exact likenesses, but rather to create prototypical or archetypal figures whose personality or identity is both partly exposed and partly hidden beneath the surface. Everything about the way I work (both technique and subject) is motivated by the desire to reveal or “bring something to light.” Thus my process involves layering then scraping back, building then excavating; otherwise, peeling back layers to “carve out” and reveal something hidden beneath the surface. 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

Selected Solo Shows 

2020 

Caught in a Fast Lane – Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK 

2017 

Interfaces’ – Hyde Park Arts Centre, Chicago (Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) 
Media made Great, Chicago ‘Caught in an act II ‘ (Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) 

2016 

Caught in the Act Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK 
Watching you, watching me Sculpture and painting. Pistachio, Chicago 

2014 

Moments of Being, Gallery C, Dubuque, IA, USA 
University of Illinois , ULC Health in the Arts clinic , Chicago USA 

Specially Selected Exhibitions

2023 & 2020 

Royal Academy Summer Show, London

2020 & 2019 

ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

2020

In Print ; 20/20 Vision:  Watts Contemporary, Watts Gallery Artists’ Village, Surrey

2019

The Prince’s Trust Auction, Highgrove House, Doughton, Gloucestershire.

2019

‘Not Just Another Pretty Face’, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. USA

2019

International Open Juried exhibition of Original Prints, ‘NOPE’ Bankside Gallery, London.

2017

Shakespeare: A celebration, Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture, California, USA

2015

Chicago Invasion, Blue Rider Gallery, Taipei, – Taiwan

2015

Artress, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, USA

2015

Elmhurst Museum; Artists Interpret Shakespeare, USA 

Collections

The Victoria and Albert Museum,London

Jiangsu Art Museum, China

Ashmolean Museum Oxford

BBC Sheffield 

Castle Lesley, Ireland

University of Aberystwyth, Wales 


 

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