2023

COLLECT ART FAIR

In March 2023 I had the pleasure of exhibiting my two artworks, TRUTH TRUST and GUILT at the Collect Art Fair, Somerset House with the Cavaliero Finn Gallery. I joined thirteen others artists working in different media, including metal, textiles, ceramics and glass.

Artist Statement for TRUTH TRUST:

Caron Penney continues the genre of using the power of text to force the viewer to reflect. This work is a clever word play, contemplating thoughts of power, subversion or honesty and hope. Penney focuses on direct language, rhetoric, political posturing and language systems. She questions how we perceive trust and truth in everyday life. Playing with the words context through the use of colour and balance, she likes to confuse.

Penney’s woven pieces use the same limited range of materials traditionally used to make handwoven tapestry, worsted wool and gilt gold threads, with the addition of dyed cotton warp which edge the finely woven pieces. She has a deep understanding of hand woven tapestry techniques and her resulting tapestries continue to be embraced by the training she acquired as a professional weaver.