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Corinna Button Now It's My Turn IV, 2023 Oil and mixed media on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About After completing a BA honours degree in painting, I pursued a printmaking postgraduate degree in the UK, where I am from. It was during this time that I was impacted by the German Expressionists, whose works, particularly in printmaking, left an indelible impression on me. I dedicated many subsequent years to developing my work in etching and other forms of printmaking. Today, printmaking continues to be a medium that intrigues me and is hugely influential in the way I approach my painting and sculpture. People are the subjects of my work and I am intrigued by moments that, despite initially appearing quite commonplace, are (for me) charged with great significance and meaning. My inspiration is drawn from experiences or predicaments I encounter in daily life, such as social gatherings, images from social media and words from a song or a poem. All these generate ideas for themes that I can build upon, "dress-up" and weave into my work. I compose figures either in groupings or as a single figure or just a face. My aim is not to create exact likenesses, but rather to create prototypical or archetypal figures whose personality or identity is both partly exposed and partly hidden beneath the surface. Everything about the way I work (both technique and subject) is motivated by the desire to reveal or "bring something to light." Thus, my process involves layering then scraping back, building then excavating; otherwise, peeling back layers to "carve out" and reveal something hidden beneath the surface. Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected Solo Shows 2020 Caught in a Fast Lane - Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK 2017 Interfaces' - Hyde Park Arts Centre, Chicago (Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) Media made Great, Chicago 'Caught in an act II '(Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) 2016 Caught in the Act Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK Watching you, watching me Sculpture and painting. Pistachio, Chicago 2014 Moments of Being, Gallery C, Dubuque, IA, USA University of Illinois, ULC Health in the Arts clinic, Chicago USA Specially Selected Exhibitions 2023 & 2020 Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2020 & 2019 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2020 In Print; 20/20 Vision: Watts Contemporary, Watts Gallery Artists' Village, Surrey 2019 The Prince's Trust Auction, Highgrove House, Doughton, Gloucestershire. 2019 'Not Just Another Pretty Face', Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. USA 2019 International Open Juried exhibition of Original Prints, 'NOPE' Bankside Gallery, London. 2017 Shakespeare: A celebration, Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture, California, USA 2015 Chicago Invasion, Blue Rider Gallery, Taipei, - Taiwan 2015 Artress, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, USA 2015 Elmhurst Museum; Artists Interpret Shakespeare, USA Collections The Victoria and Albert Museum, London Jiangsu Art Museum, China Ashmolean Museum Oxford BBC Sheffield Castle Lesley, Ireland University of Aberystwyth, Wales You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.