Coral Churchill (b.1984) is a painter whose works include portraits of Papua New Guineans and Native Americans, reflecting on the warrior archetype and ideas of the collective unconscious. The paintings question ideas of the internal mind in relation to the outer world and it’s morphology though observation. She studied painting at Central Saint Martins and has exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Art Fair, and The Muse Gallery. Her work is available at New Blood Art
A group exhibition curated with The Muse Gallery
Ann Churchill - Coral Churchill - Fearon Gold - Gosia Łapsa-Malawska - Caroline Mackenzie - Damian Rayne
7-24 March 2024
The Muse Gallery 269 Portobello Road London, England, W11 1LR
Catalogue available at the gallery.
This is an exhibition of dreamlands and inner worlds, of representation, symbolism and abstraction. Works by six artists share their subjective and fantastical experiences as they visualise them. The nature of the triptych form allows multiple perspectives to exist simultaneously in one moment. This trinity shapes the works in the exhibition along with a reference to a much evolved but often quoted line from John Milton's (1608-1674), L'Allegro (1645) "Com, and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe." To trip the light here is taken as to dance lightly through the world. In the exhibition, the relationship of image and form to sound, rhythm and movement is used as a playful foil to consider the borderlands of external to internal, the place where the body encounters it's environment and the porousness of this threshold. A lightness of touch, or approach, is achieved by each of the artists as they seek out and celebrate the possibilities of creativity to communicate the invisible or the spiritual.
Elizabeth Neilson 2024
Exhibitions
2025 Solo Show, XYZ, London
2025 Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2024 20 Years of The Muse, The Muse, London
2024 Trip the Light, co-curated with The Muse, London
2021 Lightwaves, The Muse, London
2018 A 15 Year Retrospective, The Muse, London
2016 AiR Retrospective and Auction, The Muse, London
2015 Channeling, Institution of Art and Ideas, Hay on Wye
2015 Heads, Studio One Gallery, London
2014 Auction, St Mary's Convent, London
2013 Solo Exhibition, The Muse, London
2013 Powered by PechaKucha: The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Sketch, London
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2013 AIR Residency 'Open', The Muse, London
2012 Orchestrated, Studio One Gallery, London
2012 Art Alive, Kingly Court, London
2012 The Costume Store, UAL Opening Exhibition, London
2011 Wild Life, We Are Arts Gallery, London
2010 Exhibition #2, The Museum of Everything at No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern
2010 400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2010 The Trouble with Women, Menier Gallery, London
2010 Mandrillus Sphinx, The Window Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London
2010 Some You Win, Some Deleuze, Artspace, London
2009 Art Market, Guest Projects, London
2009 One or Several Wolves, Kingsgate Gallery, London
2009 Contemporary Art Projects Stand, London Art Fair
2009 Morphology, Pop-Up Gallery Notting Hill, London
2008 Martian Hearts, Contemporary Art Projects, London
2008 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2008 '00 Nature, Contemporary Art Projects, London
2008 Urban Art Show, The Old Cinema, London
2008 Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London
2008 Art@10GS Gallery, Hammerson, Mayfair, London
2008 It's Not Over Yet, Etc Gallery, London
2007 Scratch Exhibition, HQ Building, Dublin
2007 Morphologic, The Window Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London
2007 Spring Exhibition, The Hogarth Club, London
2007 Volume Magazine Exhibition, AKA, London
2007 Central Saint Martins Degree Show, London
Residencies
2013 Artist in Residence, The Muse Gallery, London
Publications
2012 Volume Magazine, Issue 9
2010 Everything #2, The Museum of Everything
2008 Trends 2009/10, Batsford
2007 Volume Magazine, Issue 1
Education
2004-7 Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Art
2003-4 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Art Foundation
Collections
University of the Arts, London
Private collections