Therese Oulton

(b.1953)

Thérèse Oulton was born in 1953 and attended St. Martin's School of Art, London from 1975 - 79 and then the Royal College of Art, London from 1980-83. She has exhibited regularly in Europe and the USA since graduating from the Royal College of Art. Shortlisted for the Turner Prize, she is widely regarded as one of the leading abstract artists of her generation.

Biography

Therese Oulton has exhibited regularly in Europe and the USA since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1983.

Shortlisted for the Turner Prize, she is widely regarded as one of the leading abstract artists of her generation.

Her early pictures appeared to contain landscape references; recent work is more concerned with a meticulously worked paint surface, where rich, rhythmical patterns create disparate and mysterious spaces. In his profound introduction Between Two Worlds to her March 2006 London exhibition, the eminent art critic Richard Cork writes: "As soon as we encounter Thérèse Oulton's work, the dramatic instability of her vision becomes impossible to ignore. At one instant, a monument land-mass seems to spread across the canvas, impregnable and reassuring. Then, quite suddenly, it trembles on the verge of dissolution. The apparently solid elements within the painting break apart, making us aware of its fundamental vulnerability. Oulton appears to hover between two worlds, like an insomniac who feels that her mind is half awake, half dreaming".

Oulton is also an accomplished etcher, and while she may explore parallel themes to her painting, her prints tend to be intimate.

Thérèse's work was most recently exhibited at Arque Chiado Art Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal and is currently on view at the mixed Works on Paper exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art, London.

Biography

1953 Born in Shropshire, England
1975-79 St. Martin's School of Art, London
1980-83 Royal College of Art, London
2006 Lives and works in London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1984 Peterborough City Museum and Art Gallery
Fools Gold, Gimpel Fils, London
1987 Marlborough Graphics, London (also in 1989,92,94 and 98)
1987 Marlborough Fine Art, London (also in 1990,91,92 and 97)
1989 New Paintings, Hirschl & Adler (Modern), New York
1994 Marking Time, L.A.Louver Gallery, Los Angeles
Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1999 Illuminations, Oxford Gallery, Oxford
2000 Slow Motion - Recent Paintings 1997-2000, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2003 Clair Obscur Paintings & Watercolours, Marlborough Fine Art, London

2006 Lines of Flight – Recent Paintings and Prints, Marlborough Fine Art, London

Books & Catalogues

Alistair Hicks, The School of London, Phaidon Press, London, 1989
Tony Godfrey, The New Image: Painting in the 1980's, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1986
Wendy Beckett, Contemporary Women Artists , Phaidon Press, 1989
Angela Moorjani, The Aesthetics of Loss and Lessness , MacMillan, 1992

Martin Kemp editor, The Oxford History of Western Art, 2002/2010

Richard Cork, New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money: Art in the 1980’s, Yale University Press 2003

Public Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain; British Council; British Museum; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tate Britain; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Yale Center for British Art

A full biography is available on request

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