HENRIETTA LOADES-CARTER

1992-93 West Surrey College of Art and Design: Fine Art Foundation Course: studies painting and drawing.

Concentrates on life paintings. Studio: South East England. As a teen i was always seeing exhibitions with college and my mother and this love of seeing art never left me. Art has always created an emotional response in me. Seeing Munch, Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Bacon and Cezanne at an early age made a definite impression on her. Her first project looked at the self portraits of Cezanne.

1993-96 Manchester Metropolitan University: studied painting. Private commission: Exterior of commercial building in Manchester. Studios: Manchester, England. Studies  plein air painting, figurative, dadaism and abstract. Show at the Whitworth Art Gallery;  Manchester. {Re}Presenting Poussin. This gave her a love of design and figurative work. Plein air painting really taught her to work with colour and expression. Also recording areas of Manchester and surrounds now no longer there and so she created historical documents. Influences were Arshile Gorky, Milton Avery and Nicholas De Stael.

1996 Summer Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London. 

"David Murray Studentship for Landscape Painting" which took her to Scotland and Spain. She continues to work with expression noticing the changes in Light. She also received a letter of recommendation for the academy schools. Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. Volunteer, June 1996 - April 1997. This position taught her a lot about contemporary art.

1997 Will's Art Warehouse, Parson's Green, London. Group show of "Selected Artists”. The Gallery Manchester's Art House, 131 Portland St, Manchester, M1 4PY.  Exhibited in "Summer Exhibition" of selected artists. Loades-Carter moves to London and continues to exhibit in Bermondsey, London.

June 1998 – October 2000 Courtald Institute of Art Office Assistant. She learns a lot about research and art history mixing with professors and phd students now in museum positions. Realising she needed to make her own work she moves on.

June 2000 - April 2007 Cooltan Arts mental health charity, studied web design, volunteered and then worked as web design tutor. Exhibiting in small local galleries. It was incredibly humbling working with Michelle Baharier and her clients and taught her to use art for a social conscience.

2003-2005. Joined Creekside Artists studios and met some really interesting artists Bea Denton, Andrea Gregson and Thomas Hylander.  Producing work for Deptford X with Creekside Studios, every year 2003-2010. Creekside Artists, Deptford, London. Christmas Studios, every year 2003-2010 In this period Loades-Carter focussed on acrylic ink and photography always looking for the abstract and unusual. The Gallery, Morley College, London. 1in4 Exhibition, Cooltan Arts returning to exhibit with them as they had such an interesting outlook and creativity.

August-September 2010 Creekside Artists Burlesque Theme Group Show (London Fringe), Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden. Asked to produce work for this exhibition and enjoyed the abstract nature of how the body was distorted by black garments and feathers!

2011-2013 Organised final Creekside Artists show in Deptford as the whole studio was moved to Bermondsey by developers. She moved to the Biscuit factory and they promptly put on a show of abstract photographs. Creekside Artists Group Show, Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey. Art slows with family life in Surrey but she still exhibits with Creekside Artists Group Show, Royal Albert, New Cross.

2016- 2019 Art Courses and exhibitions with Fatima Pantoja, Sky artist, West End Centre, Hampshire. Fatima was a great inspiration and fired Loades-Carter up again for painting and experimenting. She researched lots of different techniques but found painting was still her passion. What type of painting to do has always been the biggest question Loades-Carter loves the freedom of landscape and abstract but could there be more? To start researching the decision she enters a plein air competition but realises this isn’t enough for her. Higherford Mill, Barrowford, Lancashire Plein Air Exhibition June 2019. Third in competition. She continues to explore. Research seeing Arshile Gorky, Helen Frankenthaler shows and the Guggenheim in Venice.

Loades-Carter joins instagram and finds a wealth of talented people either who can help her or she can help them! Consultant to Demptyspace exhibition app 2019. They have a very intriguing app that helps artists display their work. She is taught online by a director to use professionally her camera and this takes her from strength to strength. Enabling her to compose images and edit them. She also helps various people across the globe especially in America with their artwork hoping to give back what she has been taught.

2019 Slade Contemporary Painting Summer school. Looking at how painting can be contemporary.  This really deepened her understanding of contemporary art led by tutors from the Royal College of Art. She always tries to be timely and relevant. Her painting went from strength to strength at the Slade and her conceptual understanding. Producing mostly abstract work but learning about how important the idea is and how to create a site for a work of art. Work can include anything but the concept is important.

Loades-Carter traveled to Venice to the Guggenheim and to study the work of Helen Frankenthaler and Arshile Gorky who is a long held favourite of hers. Then to see Lee Krasner at the Barbican. They helped her think about the importance of colour line and form. Reading round the subject and eventually meeting the author of Ninth St Women.

A Slade colour theory short course helped build on all this knowledge and she continued with a Slade advanced short course for working artists 2020. She continued to exhibit and planned a solo show for 2020 in an abstract phase of her work looking at early Pollock.

2020 She continued to make connections doing international collaborations with digital art and music. There was a slow sea change in her work from collage to painting and digital photography and how they could be used in combination for a really expressive and emotional outcome. This felt authentic to her. The pandemic brought out a need in her to express her very deepest emotions which hadn’t surfaced before. She was selected by the Financial Times cultural editor for Selected Summer Exhibition at Green and Stone. London August 2020. And won a pandemic award for art from them.

Momentum gathered and she was selected for the The Art of Isolation. Selected Group Show. Espacio Gallery, London. 2020. Felt like a landmark show in terms making timely and emotional work. She felt seen and heard. She was seen as one to watch in this show. After this show The Art of Isolation Collective was formed in London with international artists and she was a key player in pushing it forward. The Collective moved quickly and easily through several exhibitions showing putting together thoughtful shows in intriguing in evocative places. They were also very quick to try online exhibitions knowing during a pandemic this was and interesting way to proceed. She also ran rooms on clubhouse app on contemporary art questions.

2021 Mentored by international artist Edward Povey and this continues. Loades-Carter is good at understanding what she needs to know next and she wanted to improve her understanding of the art world and to create even more interesting concepts in her work.

She exhibits in Mayfair London with the Taoicollective. With the pandemic easing she takes another studio at Make Space Studios, London giving an opportunity to further her painting research at The Tate Museums and the National Gallery. June 2021 -

Research at a Marina Abramovich show in Brick Lane, London. Her use of psychology, found objects and atmosphere really impacted and Loades-Carter continues to study this fascinating performance artist.

House Of Annetta exhibition with TAOI Collective at House Of Annetta November 2021  Fascinating delve into the history of a house and an extraordinary woman. We were the first people allowed to look into the archive. It was in conjunction with the Architects’ group Assemble. It brings emotion and research into the equation.

2022  Loades-Carter is currently working on personal body of large works after thoroughly researching Paula Rego’s work past and present and the Francis Bacon at the Royal Academy, London and contemporary painting at the Hayward Gallery. Latest research has been at The National Gallery looking at the work of Raphael for the sense of colour and design skills. More research was made at the Hayward Gallery London, Louise Bourgeois exhibition noting her use of space and found objects creating personal and impactful work that as she said herself changed over a period of time. Her words seem just as powerful as the work itself.

Having researched at the Courtauld Institute of Art’s own collection and Van Gogh’s self portraits she is now working on a dual show with Thomas Stimpson MBE to be held in September in London. 2022. She becomes a mentor with ACE funding.

2023-2024 Created a Ways of Healing triptych ideas stemming from Van Gogh, veterans and myself.

2023-2024 Loades-Carter is researching and designing a new series inspired by Kathe Kollwitz, her own experience of war third hand and the self. Research taking place in the Imperial War museum and Cookham the home of Stanley Spencer, Making Modernism and Moma’s exhibition of Kathe Kollwitz prints. She has read the letters and diary of Kathe Kollwitz.

April - May 2024 Re-Framing: Modern and Contemporary Art by Women 1880s to Today. Studying at the Courtauld Institute Of Art, London.

Awards

2020 Green and Stone, London. Isolation artist of the day

1996 Summer

Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London. 
"David Murray Studentship for Landscape Painting" which took me to Scotland and Spain.

Articles

https://www.artandeducation.co.uk/beauty-in-lockdown
Poetry reacting to a collage artist included as part of Beauty in Lockdown.

Private Collections

Work in two continents.