artist statement
Carys Tupper is a multidisciplinary artist based in England. Her practice explores the mark as a claim to space, attention, history and self, considering the ways presence is asserted, recorded and lost.
Working across painting, sculpture and performance, Tupper explores the physicality of making through colour, texture, gesture and material. Her work is concerned with the traces left by the body, using mark-making, repetition, disruption and processes of sewing, ripping and reconstruction to explore presence, vulnerability and transience.
Influenced by action painting, Abstract Expressionism and musicality, Tupper’s practice considers the body not only as something represented, but as something embedded within the act of making. Her work is an exploration of presence and disappearance — of claiming space while recognising how fragile any trace can be.
CV
Carys Tupper
Born 2001
Lives and works in Englans
Education
2021 - 2024, 1st Class Fine Art BA at Arts University Bournemouth
2023, term abroad at Hongik University, Seoul
2019, Foundation Diploma in Art. Media and Design, Fine Art specialism from University of the Creative Arts, Epsom
Selected Exhibitions
June - July 2025, Gestures of Anatomy (still life), site-specific window installation commision, West Green Window, Crawley
February 2025, ‘Never Made For Us’, group exhibition, London
February 2025. ‘PRAXIS’, group exhibition, Umbrella, Cardiff
August 2024, ‘You Crazy Child’, group exhibition, TURPS Gallery, London
July 2024,’Summer Exhibition’. group exhibition, Crawley
July 2024, ‘Graduate Show’, AUB, Bournemouth
March 2024, 'Fibrous Emblematic's', group exhibition, The BUG, Bournemouth
January 2024, 'Unearthed Motions', group exhibition, The BUG, Bournemouth
December 2023, 'Bare Soles', solo exhibition, Bournemouth
December 2022, 'Fair Play' at The Bournemouth Little Theatre
Feb 2021, Digital Project with ‘The Centre for the Less Good Idea’, Johannesburg
March 2022, 'Where We Call Home', group exhibition, Bournemouth
June 2020, Whitehall Historic House, group exhibition, Cheam
Selected Publications
Suboart, May 2025
BUMF, issue 16, 2023
Aesthetica, 2021