Headline News
A series of telephone calls made over the course of a week to the Sherriff’s office of a small town in California.
Caroline Penn
About Caroline Penn
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One and many pages
Digitally printed concertina. Plain board cover with blind debossed title. Â 10.5 x 13.5 cm.
One and many pages is part of a project for AM Bruno. Responding to a photograph of a book together with the title, the initial image was photographed, printed as a page and again photographed… until the book but not the page disappeared.
Twenty-four double-page spreads reveal the progressive degradation and distortion of the image, as it switches from analogue to digital, from print to page, and then back again.
Floe Flow
A collaboration with Sacha Lehrfreund, inspired by events that occurred one winter in a frozen Budapest. Combining a diary with photographs and scientific reports, the book links the personal and medical with the meteorological.
A Catalogue of Disappointment(s)
A triptych reveals the trials and tribulations of printmaking, housekeeping and unresolved loss.
Conservation Report
A technical report from a paper conservator acts as a narrative device telling a story of emotional and physical damage.
Inherited: A Family History of Cleaning and Keeping
Through drawings, legible and illegible handwriting as well as a technical report, the Hoover, two vacuum cleaners, one floor polisher and a carpet sweeper left behind by the artist’s mother after her death, reveal layers of emotional attachment as well as attitudes to cleaning and the problem of unwanted matter.
Residue
On packing up the family home, all that is left are the edges: the corners, the walls and the dust where the pictures once were.
NeedleWork
A story of emigration, sewing and survival using material sourced from family papers and the National Archive along with my grandmother’s sewing kit.
Commissioned by Pages in Leeds for the touring exhibition Enfolding Journeys, 2025.
(The Yellow Wallpaper)
In the story, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the unnamed narrator is trapped by the physical and social structures of her marriage, and the strict orders of her doctor, in the top room of an old mansion house. The isolation and the lack of mental and physical activity drive her to madness.
