STATEMENT

Through my work, I try to understand the power structures that influence my family and national history, and that influence the increasingly tenuous state of the world today. Raised by missionaries in the postcolonial South Pacific, I understand the world through lenses of belonging, of power, and of loss.

I start by combing through images and text, looking for repeated motifs in our material culture, the records we leave, and the environments we build. Then, I repurpose those images and text as subject matter, first drawing, then cutting, rearranging, and sewing.

Layered with veils of information, my work becomes wall hangings, artist books, room screens, banners, etc. The physical form and the collaged subjects together create entanglement between historical and contemporary issues. I am trying to make sense of a seemingly impenetrable and overwhelmingly violent human history, and to emerge from it with tenderness.

BIO

Corrie Thompson (b. Los Angeles) is an artist and educator whose work is grounded in drawing and history. Thompson grew up between the United States, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea and currently lives in Fort Worth, TX. She received an MFA in Studio Art at Texas Christian University in 2022, and a BA in Fine Art from North Park University in Chicago in 2013. In 2022, she cofounded Easyside, a nonprofit seeking alternative methods of creation and care to equip artists and feed communities in East Fort Worth. She has been awarded residencies at Wildacres and Centrum, as well as undertaking a self-directed Artist-Residency-in-Motherhood, a project guided by artist Lenka Clayton. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Midwest and Texas, with recent exhibitions at the Old Jail Art Center, Blind Alley Projects, Arts Fort Worth, Moncrief Cancer Center, and Vignette Art Fair.