ARTIST IN FOCUS: RICHARD CALDICOTT

Launching #artistinfocus! Once a month we will dedicate a whole week to one artist from our roster on Instagram. We will dive into and share with you their work, process, history, behind the scenes and more!

Starting with Richard Caldicott (b.1962). Caldicott is a British multidisciplinary artist based in London. He is best known for his photographs or abstract compositions and geometric forms.

This selection displays works from his well-known Tupperwares series and his Objects series, as well as his Constructions, tape drawings, photograms and envelope drawings. For more information please contact us: info@atlasgallery.com and follow us on Instagram to follow the hashtag!

RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Anchovies, 1996 (Objects Series)
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Day 1: Objects. One of Caldicott’s first projects, the series was recently re-discovered and became the focus of several successful shows. ⁠”I had been working with still life, searching for a ‘blank-ness’. I was collecting objects of a certain humble interest, often overlooked. “ These everyday objects were then placed like trophies against painted backdrops, saturated in seamless colour.

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Brush, 1994 (Objects Series)
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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Cups, 1990s (Objects series)
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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled #101 1999 (Tupperware series)
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Day 2: Tupperware. Richard Caldicott’s Tupperware series, started in the late 90’s. This is Caldicott most successful and recognised body of work. From the 90’s to the early 2000’s Caldicott used Tuppeware and other generic kitchen items to create abstract and colourful photographs often compared to the work of abstract expressionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. ⁠

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled #126 1999 (Tupperware series)
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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Construction 11, 2003
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Day 3: Constructions.Focusing on pure form and colour, Caldicott composes works in an almost notational, rhythmic way. These abstractions are bold in their composition of lines, bars and rectangles. They look more like paintings than photographs, betrayed only by their flatness and the tendency, here and there, of the colour to blush and flare as light leaks out of Caldicott’s strict geometries.⁠

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Construction 12, 2013
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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Exhibition View
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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled, 6.9.12
Unique envelope drawing

Day 4: Enveloppes. “The series of envelope drawings started around 2011. I was travelling a lot and I wanted to take some small portable works with me while on my journey. I had been prolifically making works on paper from about 2001 onwards, sourcing different kinds of papers. Using the photo copier as if it was a silk screen press I would pass the envelopes through the paper feed multiple times – building up layers of colours. The drawn elements, are made using ball point pens and stencils adding a layer of structure, and in some instances a partial 3-dimensionality to the work”.

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled, 28.6.13
Unique envelope drawing

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled, 28.6.13
Unique envelope drawing

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled, 6.9.12
Unique Envelope Drawings

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled, #42, 2013
Photogram

Day 5: Photogram. Caldicott’s take on the photogram medium is unique; he creates custom “negatives” cutting small geometric shapes form pieces of colourful card. These are then exposed onto photographic paper and the two abstract works are presented together, side by side. Combining the black and white photogram with the bright stencil that he used to create them. The resulting small-scale diptychs are purely abstract compositions .

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled, #42, 2013
Photogram

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled
Tape Drawing

Day 6: Tape Drawings. As the title of the series indicates, Tape Drawings, are drawings made with various coloured plastic electrical tape.⁠”Tape Drawings allowed me the freedom to create meticulous, free flowing compositions of overlapping lines and colour.” Even his most sparse and minimal works have an architectural quality, playing with a highly-calculated use of space – partitioned, divided and sliced. ⁠

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled
Tape Drawing

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled
Tape Drawing

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled
Signals

Day 7: Signals is Richard Caldicott’s most recent body of work.”In these new colour works which share a confluence of natural light and saturated depths of colour, geometric shapes are choreographed with undulating colour backgrounds.⁠

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled
Signals

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RICHARD CALDICOTT
RICHARD CALDICOTT

Untitled
Signals

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