Carrie Doherty

Carrie Doherty has created a series of five oil paintings, a series of three watercolour paintings and a film that contextualise her personal experience with grief regarding the loss of her father and her complicated relationship with faith which ensued thereafter. Her oil paintings explore the five stages of grief and incorporate the use of her father's ashes mixed within small amounts of paint and sealed beneath a resin-based varnish in a bid to immortalise her father within her work. Carrie's work incorporates the preservation and subversion of religious imagery and concepts which derived from her Catholic upbringing that she associates with grief and human suffering.