Tennis Court at Night

Location

Country: Switzerland
City: Berne
Place: British Embassy

Lit by two street lamps, the desolate tennis court emerges beyond a line of identically pruned trees. Zoe Carlon’s atmospheric 'Tennis Court at Night' shows the artist’s concern with spaces that are simultaneously public and private. She is preoccupied with how these spaces, at first functional and often transitory, encourage a sense of isolation and solitude. Working from observation and memory, Zoe Carlon creates a relationship between the interior and the exterior, exploring surface, depth, figuration and abstraction

Zoë Carlon was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire. She graduated with a BFA from Leeds University in 2017 and went on for further studies to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held by her gallery South Parade in Mexico City (2023) and London (2022) and her work has been included in group exhibitions including most recently at Super Super Markt, Berlin, Germany; What We Make Where at the Hyde Park Art Club, Leeds; AMP Gallery, London (all 2023); The Art House x The Ridings, Wakefield; Collected, Newcastle upon Tyne; and Tetley Associate Artist Studio Showcase (all 2022); Centre for Recent Drawing, London and Art Walk Wakefield (both 2021).

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Subjects

Materials & Techniques

aluminium, oil, oil paint, oil painting

Artist

Zoë Carlon (1993 - )

Title

Tennis Court at Night

Date

2021

Medium

oil on aluminium

Dimensions

height: 64.0 cm; width: 44.0 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from South Parade, March 2022

Provenance

South Parade, London UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 23 March 2022

GAC number

19058