Caroline Yates

Caroline Yates lives in Deal, Kent. Following completion of her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1995, Caroline worked briefly in textile design and as an illustrator. She started painting full time in 2000 and completed further post graduate studies in fine art printmaking at Camberwell College of Art in 2001.

Her subjects include crowds or multiples, observing the relationships and choreographic patterns they form, be it city commuters or other animals and their behaviour. She is interested in the anonymity of crowds; the security and comfort, or threat and menace of large numbers and the way we, as crowds are sometimes unwittingly channelled or herded into spaces.

Caroline Yates works from her photography in oils on canvas. Patterns and repeats feature in some of the paintings - imagery slipping off the boundaries of the canvases, suggesting an infinite roll of humanity rather than a picture confined to a square or rectangle.