Caroline Burraway BA (Hons), MAFA
Qualifications and Training:
2004 - 2006 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
2000 - 2003 Drawing BA (Hons), Camberwell College of Arts, London
1998 - 2000 Foundation, Camberwell College of Arts, London
Selected Exhibitions, Prizes, Publications, Articles:
2024 Elevation - interview with John Kelly, broadcaster and writer, U2 channel on Sirius XM
2024 Considering Art Podcast - interview https://consideringart.com/2024/02/26/considering-art-podcast-caroline-burraway-multi-media-artist/
2024 Ungrievable Lives, National Concert Hall, Dublin
2023 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, shortlist
2023 Explore Art Magazine - interview https://www.exploreartproject.com/explore-art/caroline-burraway-november2023 -
2024 John Ruskin Prize, London, shortlist
Seeing the Unseen, Hearing the Unspoken
2023 TBW Drawing Prize, shortlist
2023 Ungrievable Lives, Kuhmo Music Festival, Finland
2023 AIAPI-UNESCO, Italy Human Rights exhibition HOPE
2023 Fondation François Schneider, Contemporary Talents Competition, France - finalist
2023. ModPortrait Prize, MEAM Museum, Barcelona - finalist
2023 Aesthetica Art Prize, longlist
2023 Ungrievable Lives, New Chapel Oxford University Faculty of Music https://music.web.ox.ac.uk/event/castalian-string-quartet
2023 Wiener Konzerthaus - premiere Ungrievable Lives
https://konzerthaus.at/concert/eventid/59917
2022 Luxembourg Art Prize - Certificate of Artistic Achievement
2022 The Times, review Richard Morrison chief culture writer
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/castalian-string-quartet-review-a-profound-tribute-to-refugee-children-l5jjkjnrn
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical%20music%20news/article/wigmore-hall-premiere-to-highlight-experience-of-refugees
2022 (October) Wigmore Hall, London - installation Ungrievable Lives inspired a new string quartet by composer Charlotte Bray
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/30/wigmore-hall-music-and-art-combine-to-highlight-child-refugee-crisis
2022 (April) Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, installation Ungrievable Lives inspired a new string quartet by composer Charlotte Bray
https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/mediatheque/life-jackets-turn-into-a-string-quartet-score/702
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcDgBgTsj8w/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y
Caroline Burraway in conversation with curator and Director of Victoria Square Project, Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou https://www.facebook.com/refugeeweekgreece/videos/962375357789437
2022 IAA/AIAPI-UNESCO HUMAN RIGHTS? #NO-GAP exhibition, Italy
Interalia Magazine on Drawing as Process, https:// www.interaliamag.org/articles/caroline- burraway-the-abject-other/
http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/success-story-caroline-burraway/
https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2018/10/16/interview-trinity-buoy-wharf-drawing-prize-winner-caroline-burraway/
2022 Institut Français, Ciné Lumière, Refugee Week: Special screening of 2 video works https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/special-screenings/precarious-new-video-works-by-caroline-burraway/
2022. Everyman Cinema, special screening of 2 video works
2021. Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral winner of the JGM Gallery Prize
2021 Ciné Lumière, French Institut video screenings, Refugee Week https://refugeeweek.org.uk/events/talk-screening-face-modern-diaspora-caroline-burraway/
2021 Children of Moria, public art installation Holland Walk/Design Museum W8
2021 Children of Moria, public art installation St Luke’s Church SW3
2020 Art then and Now, Resonance FM
2019 Saatchi Gallery, Draw Art Fair, London
2018 First Prize Winner, TBW Drawing Prize (formerly Jerwood), London
2018 AIAPI/UNESCO International Exhibition on Human Rights, Italy
2018 Aesthetica Art Prize, longlist
2018 Columbia Threadneedle Prize , Mall Galleries London, finalist
2018 http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/success-story-caroline-burraway/
2017 ‘Holocaust Memorial’, Architectural Review Future Projects Competition, collaboration, shortlist
2017 Interalia Magazine on Drawing as Process, https:// www.interaliamag.org/articles/caroline-burraway-the-abject-other/
2016 Jerwood Drawing Prize, shortlist
2016 Aesthetica Art Prize, longlist
2016 Awarded Regional Prize for London, NOA London
2015 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London W1
2015 Albemarle Gallery, Albemarle street, London W1
2014 Medici Gallery, Cork Street, London W1
2013 Aesthetica Art Prize, longlist
2013 'Decomposition', The Berwick Watchtower, Berwick-upon-Tweed
2013 'Beingwoman', Beinghuman Warehouse, Frome, Somerset
2013 Solo show, Chelsea Arts Club, London SW3
2013 Aesthetica Art Prize, long list
2008-11 Honorary Research Fellowship, Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University
2008 Solo Show, Signal Gallery, Hoxton, London EC2
2006 Huis Marseille - museum voor fotografie, Amsterdam
2005 ‘Making Things Better’, East 05, Norwich Gallery
2004 ‘Disciplinary Procedures’, South London Gallery/Camberwell College of Arts
Artist Statement
I see the lives of ‘the Other’, not one any would aspire to lead or even acknowledge, but those lives that live forever behind closed doors, closed worlds. I question the differential values placed on a Western life against the life of the refugee arriving at the borders of the European Union. ”What makes for a grievable life? Who counts as human? Whose lives count as lives?" - Judith Butler, “Precarious Life,” 2004.
I seek to raise awareness and encourage conversation around these socio-political issues and to provoke a humanitarian response to the twin issues of displacement and dispossession.
As First Prize Winner of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (formerly the Jerwood), my large charcoal drawings of the faces of ‘Eden’ and ‘Samuel’, refugees I met in the Calais Jungle, are not only the portraits of individuals but the ‘faces’ of all the human beings, the stories and the voices behind the mugshots and biometric data collected today at the borders of the European Union.
My body of work is, in many ways, a form of protest and also a call to arms. A counterforce to the new wave of right wing populists making headway in Europe. Their politics of fear grows fat on images of refugees arriving from distant lands, speaking polluting tongues, worshipping dangerous gods.
It is part of a radically different political imperative, a different sociality, a face-to-face, both in the literal sense but also in the spirit intended by Emmanuel Levinas - namely that the face-to-face encounter is underwritten by a deep ethical responsibility to acknowledge the Other as a living, breathing presence, not an expendable object.