Plumebust

Caroline Achaintre, 2018

Plumebust sits at the heart of Caroline Achaintre's practice, in which she works with wool through hand tufting to create wall-mounted textile works of hybrid, phantasmagorical and totemic forms. Against a dense, colourful background, Achaintre tufts from the back of the piece, allowing the composition to unfold intuitively. The result is a surface that is at once raw and rich, whose texture evokes both fur and plumage — at once fascinating and intriguing. The Thalie Foundation exhibited her work in 2023 as part of a solo exhibition in its Brussels spaces.

Caroline Achaintre

A Franco-British artist born in 1969 and based in London, Caroline Achaintre works primarily with hand-tufting to create wall-based textile works featuring organic and ritualistic forms. Her work conjures primitive archetypes, masks, and hybrid figures hovering between the human and animal. She teaches at the Royal College of Art in London.