CAS ASSOCIATE ARTIST TAKEOVER: Caroline Perkins

"Landscapes of Loss" at The Chapel Gallery

Monday 28 April - Sunday 8 May


Open to the Public:

11am - 4pm on Thursday 1, Friday 2, and Saturday 3 May 2025


Caroline will be available to chat about the work on display and how she is using this time to experiment with a new way of working. All welcome!


Caroline Perkins is a British artist whose practice is evolving from figurative work toward abstract landscapes, externalising an internal topography shaped by grief. She describes this transition as the sense that her body has become too small to contain the immense barrage of emotion, which now spills and leaks outwards. During her time at the Chapel, she will explore this through a series of drawings made throughout the day, repeatedly erased and re-layered, allowing the ghosts of emotional sedimentation to create a mythical, imagined landscape.


Caroline’s wider practice weaves together personal histories of love, loss, resilience, and the somatic experience of ageing. Her emotionally charged paintings and installations draw on a deep engagement with neuroscience, quantum physics, and consciousness, investigating how art can act as a vessel for transformation, healing, and connection across realms seen and unseen.


She holds a distinction-awarded MA from the Royal College of Art, where her dissertation, The Somaticity of Ageing: Age is Not a Number, explored neurodivergence and the embodied experience of ageing. Her writing and visual work combine academic rigour with a raw, poetic sensibility.


Caroline is the founder of Unity Art Studio in Hampshire, an artist-led initiative that offers studios, exhibitions, and critique groups, fostering a professional and supportive community. Her commitment to interdisciplinary exploration has led to collaborative projects investigating the intersections of art, brainwaves, meditation, and architecture, Caroline is presently applying for funding to further research and develop her work.


She has exhibited across Hampshire, including Hampshire Open Studios, and is preparing a new body of work inspired by the North Yorkshire Moors, where spiritual landscapes and human fragility meet. Her work is ultimately a testament to survival, transformation, and the unseen threads that connect us all.


Come along to The Chapel between Thursday 1 and Saturday 3 May between 11am and 4pm to enjoy and learn about Caroline's practice.

 

CAROLINE PERKINS


She has exhibited at the Truman Brewery London and Saffe space 2, Peckham in London.


Regional shows included Station Inn in Winchester, Winchester Art Gallery, and Unity Art Studio. Her work is also held by private collectors. and venues. 


She is based in Andover, Hampshire.  She is the owner 


You can find more of Caroline's work on Instagram, Facebook, and on her website www.carolineperkinsart.com