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About Caroline Penn

http://carolinepenn.com

Caroline Penn is an artist based in north London who creates books and small installations. Her recent work considers the slippage between memory and place.

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Courtship (book)

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Letterpress on BFK Rives paper with a mix of Bib Tengujo and coloured tracing papers. Text and papers vary. Japanese stab binding.
Pages, approx 12 x 12 cm. Hand-made box, approx 13.5 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition of 6.
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Letterpress on BFK Rives paper with a mix of Bib Tengujo and coloured tracing papers. Text and papers vary. Japanese stab binding.
Pages, approx 12 x 12 cm. Hand-made box, approx 13.5 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition of 6.
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Letterpress on BFK Rives paper with a mix of Bib Tengujo and coloured tracing papers. Text and papers vary. Japanese stab binding.
Pages, approx 12 x 12 cm. Hand-made box, approx 13.5 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition of 6.
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Letterpress on BFK Rives paper with a mix of Bib Tengujo and coloured tracing papers. Text and papers vary. Japanese stab binding.
Pages, approx 12 x 12 cm. Hand-made box, approx 13.5 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition of 6.
  • Courtship is a story about the possibility of romance and passion at the lipstick counter. Released from their context, these words – acquired from the commercial repertoire of lipstick colours – form a new narrative of desire.
Japanese paper book by Caroline Penn (2015)

Quiet Light

Quiet Light was installed at the Postgraduate Show, Camberwell College of Arts UAL, July 2015.

Japanese paper book by Caroline Penn (2015)
The rooms of a former home drawn from memory by its former occupants, together with personal recollections of each room
Japanese paper book by Caroline Penn (2015)
The rooms of a former home drawn from memory by its former occupants, together with personal recollections of each room
Japanese paper book by Caroline Penn (2015)
The rooms of a former home drawn from memory by its former occupants, together with personal recollections of each room
Japanese paper book by Caroline Penn (2015)
The rooms of a former home drawn from memory by its former occupants, together with personal recollections of each room
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
Quiet Light
Book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints and collected text. Page size: 20 x 20 cm
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NoWhere

NoWhere was presented as a multi-media installation at the Postgraduate Show, Camberwell College of Arts UAL, July 2015. The book NoWhere was acquired by the College for its collection of Artists’ Books.

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Home is the core of place experience; it both contains us and is within us. Our intimate relationship with domestic space is imprinted upon us at an early age and stays with us throughout our lives, the interior memories continuing to interact with external reality. The book, film and wall text explore the interaction between place and memory, examining what is retained and what is lost in recollections of home.

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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
AWA2015000M0714-3070
NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
AWA2015000M0714-3074
NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
AWA2015000M0714-3086
NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
AWA2015000M0714-3088
NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
AWA2015000M0714-3090
NoWhere: book printed digitally on Japanese paper from original monoprints using wallpapers, house plans, collaged material and collected text. Page size 25 x 30 cm
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Pebbles: Pea, Plum, Potato

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Digitally printed. Bound, 9.5 x 12.5 cm. Numbered limited edition of 20.
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Digitally printed. Bound, 9.5 x 12.5 cm. Numbered limited edition of 20.
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Digitally printed. Bound, 9.5 x 12.5 cm. Numbered limited edition of 20.
  • These works are a response to my first visit to Chesil Beach, where the sea has perfectly graded one hundred million tonnes of shingle over 18 miles: from pea-size gravel in the west to potato-size pebbles in the east.
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Pebbles: Fieldwork

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Fieldwork, Chesil Beach. Artist\'s book by Caroline Penn.
Digitally printed concertina, 9.5 x 12 cm. Numbered limited edition of 20.
  • These works are a response to my first visit to Chesil Beach, where the sea has perfectly graded one hundred million tonnes of shingle over 18 miles: from pea-size gravel in the west to potato-size pebbles in the east.
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Pebbles: Notes from Chesil Beach

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Five digitally printed folios in hand-made box, 11 x 15 cm. Numbered limited edition of 20.
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Five digitally printed folios in hand-made box, 11 x 15 cm. Numbered limited edition of 20.
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Five digitally printed folios in hand-made box, 11 x 15 cm. Numbered limited edition of 20.
  • These works are a response to my first visit to Chesil Beach, where the sea has perfectly graded one hundred million tonnes of shingle over 18 miles: from pea-size gravel in the west to potato-size pebbles in the east.

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