Cuthbert themes are wide and varied and are underpinned by creative risk taking and experimentation. She finds inspiration in her surroundings, whether that be from people and the natural world or from musicality and sound. She often works with abstraction, adding layers of interpretation and pushing the boundaries of understanding. A central element in her work is colour, painting-out and painting-in, editing live on the canvas are methods of her practice. To her, visual means communication and the ways in which we interpret this language, an aspect that has always fascinated Cuthbert. In addition, layering techniques are crucial to her painting and printmaking process. Responding in this mode to a work as it evolves and where she is entirely relying on memory and instinct is something explored by Cuthbert in her paintings, and is a technique used in her other fields of interest, like music production or printmaking.
Cuthbert has exhibited extensively across the United Kingdom and further afield in countries such as Mexico, Japan, China and the USA. In 2017, she was selected to take part in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London. Cuthbert’s work was also presented at the Society of Women Artists Show and the Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.
Vanessa Cuthbert, Red Montage, 2018, H840 mm x W590 mm, ink jet print on 300gsm paper.
Courtesy and ©Vanessa Cuthbert, Vera Schuhmacher Fine Art and Renée Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy, 2022.
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