About this episode

Caragh Thuring discusses her artistic influences and the cultural experiences that shape her work.

Caragh Thuring talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Thuring, who was born in Brussels in 1972 and has lived in the UK since 1973 makes paintings that present fragments of images, patterns and abstraction in compositions that often upend the conventions of her medium, while reaffirming its unique descriptive and poetic powers. With motifs that appear and often reappear in morphing forms and combinations, alluding to specific moments in her life, to film or art history, her paintings are in flux, both in their structure and spatial arrangements and in their meaning. They are propositions that cannot easily be resolved or reduced to simple or convenient narrative yet are far from unfocused or bloodless; rather, they arrest us and pull us deep into their mysteries, rewarding us as we spend more time with them, and return to them. She reflects on her interest in forms of slippage across various art forms, the role of drawing in her work, and her admiration of different forms of making, especially when there is a twist in how they are realised. She discusses her…

People in this episode

Host: Ben Luke

Guest: Caragh Thuring

Topics covered

• art influences
• cultural experiences
• painting techniques
• art history
• personal reflections

Keywords

• Caragh Thuring
• Ben Luke
• art influences
• painting
• art history
• Otto Dix
• Vija Celmins
• Pieter de Hooch
• René Daniëls

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Places: Brussels

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