Caroline Wiseman deals in paintings, drawings, sculpture, and original prints by major British and International artists.
A qualified barrister Wiseman founded Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary in 1988. Since then she has lived and worked in both London and New York.
She now lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk where she established the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout and Art House in 2010.
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A qualified barrister, Caroline Wiseman founded Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary in 1988.
Since then she has been an international art dealer, living and working in both London and New York, where her triplet sons grew up.
Ten years ago, she and her late partner Francis Carnwath founded the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout and Art House in an old Lookout tower on Aldeburgh Beach as a catalyst for challenging ideas.
An art dealer, art collector, patron of the arts, collaborator, author, director, and passionate host. Caroline has curated a home, studio, and gallery space that inspires creativity honors the arts and supports innovative thinkers, artists, writers, poets, philosophers and performers to challenge art and ideas.
The Art House is like a ‘living, breathing Kettles Yard by the sea’, Telegraph Magazine, 25th May 2013. It exhibits a constantly changing selection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and original prints by important British and international artists.
As with all her houses over the past thirty years, every room in her current Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Art House has constantly changing art by many of Britain's most important modern and contemporary artists. All of which become an intimate part of the household.
Over the years Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary has been a consultant for many major private collections and museums including the Musee D'Art Classique a Mougins, voted new museum of the year, 2011, by Apollo Magazine. Please click here to see their website.
Caroline founded Alive in the Universe in 2019 and with co-curator David Baldry presented projects by 28 artists over 28 days at the Venice Biennale. In 2021, The Angel of the East, lying on Aldeburgh Beach between the Lookout and the sea, was created and named by members of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach.
PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS
Trustee of Paintings in Hospitals 2002-2008
Ambassador of the Princes Trust 2008 (continuing)
Senior Visiting Fellow University of Suffolk
PUBLICATIONS
Guide to Collecting Prints and Posters by Mitchell Beazley, 1997 (Caroline Wiseman- consultant on chapter on original prints)
Elizabeth Frink Original Prints Catalogue Raisonne, Art Books International, 1998
Modern Art Now, from Conception to Consumption, Strawberry Art Press, 2006
The Leonardo Question, Strawberry Art Press, 2009. The Leonardo Question has been adapted as a play, toured the UK, and was part of the Edinburgh Festival.
Duchamp: 100 Years Later. The Posthumous Spectator Speaks.
A Timeless Moment, A journey into time and timelessness on Aldeburgh beach, Lookout Editions, Alive in the Universe, 2020
Current Projects
10th Anniversary Autumn Exhibition - October 2020 Click here to read more
Time and Timelessness - February 2020 Click here to read more
ALIVE in the UNIVERSE Venice Biennale May 8th - June 4th, 2019 Palazzo Pesaro Papafava. Click here to read more
In 2017 we presented Duchamp: 100 Years Later which examined the two iconoclasts Duchamp and Cage whose ideas in art and music are fundamentally linked. In addition to rare etchings by Duchamp from The Large Glass and Related Works, 1967 and rare lithographs by Cage: Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel, 1969 we showed works by other artists who like Duchamp and Cage take their ideas to the edge. In the Lookout we periodically have mmmm's interactive site-specific performance work inspired by The Nude Descending a Staircase, Duchamp's 1912 work projected onto the side of the tower.
Please click here to see Caroline Wiseman's article on Duchamp: 100 years later.
The CQ Secret, How and Why Creative Intelligence is the Secret of Human Success, Alive in the Universe 2021
PRESS & REVIEWS
Unique in the Universe is receiving much coverage. Click here to view.
Please listen to Caroline's chat with Lesley Dolphin on BBC Radio Suffolk on Thursday 3rd May 2012. (listen from 3.00 in).
Below is a small selection of some of the wonderful reviews of The Leonardo Question.
Edinburgh Review:
'Caroline Wiseman's play is an entertaining, satirical romp through the world of modern art over the past century...the piece has wit and charm' Reviewed by Ben for one4review.
'This is to recommend Caroline Wiseman's very entertaining short play about modern art...between them, three very talented young actors play everybody from Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein to Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin by way of Jackson Pollack, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, and art patron, muse and mistress Peggy Guggenheim. It's a tour de force of quick change, everybody in the audience had a very good time at the show I attended. Reviewed by Humphrey Burton, Writer, and Broadcaster.
'an exhilarating tour around the art world - thought-provoking and fun!' Reviewed by Mary Rose Beaumont, Art Historian.
'vivid and entertaining!' Dr. Alan Wilkinson, Art Historian.
'This is a play on art that dances from the on. It is mischievous, ironic, touching, and ignited with shrewd insight. While the art is revolutionary, its makers, dealers, and collectors are venal and eventually in despair. The players and the direction were precise so the famous artists and their followers had their vanity outed. These are serious matters presented with the lightness of a souffle'. Reviewed by Angus Stewart, Art Critic.
Please click here to see a trailer of the play.
