Carrington’s work is absolutely enchanting; each of her paintings are filled with their own complex narratives and deep mythologies that seem to have histories stretching back hundreds of years. Her work is very much tied with stories and the tradition of storytelling and mythologies, exemplified further by her many written works, and expressing them in a fantastical magical realism that imbues her works with their own lives and auras. Through playing on surreal fantasy worlds and acting out the process of creation of these worlds and ideals she is able to emulate the sense that the have existed throughout history, drawing on various cultural mythologies in order to reinvent and create new, more relevant and re purposed stories which examine the storytelling tradition, the boundless unlimited possibilities of the human imagination and our collective fascination with it whilst incorporating questions of female sexuality and identity which are usually repressed in such folkloric narratives.
Rebecca Elysium 