Carol Sommer
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    • Monolith (2025)
    • Lever (2024)
    • Diagonals (2024)
    • Equivalents (2023-2024)
    • Sometimes she tried to think about painting (2021 - 2023)
    • This Has Nothing To Do With Easter (2020 - 2022)
    • Will The Real Iris Murdoch Please Stand Up? (2019 - 2022)
    • The Sea, The Sea (2018)
    • An A-Z of Orientations (2016)
    • From One To The Other (2014/2015)
    • Cosmic Order I (2014)
    • Transparency Series (2012)
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Selected exhibitions & projects:


​Weirdness of the Real Oriel Canfas, Cardiff, December 2025

Redcar Contemporary Affordable Art Exhibition, November 2025


Bad AI Sunderland Pavilion of The Wrong Biennale, Priestman Gallery, Sunderland, November 2025
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Old Shadows Hearse House, Ninebanks & Keenley Chapel, Ninebanks, September 2025

About Time Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, July - August, 2025

Baltic Open Call Baltic, Gateshead, 2024

Industrial Coast Auxiliary Project Space, Middlesbrough, 2024

Destination/Elevation Pop Recs, Sunderland, 2024

Last Shot Open Call Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, 2024

Are You A Woman In Authority? Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, 2023


Sometimes she tried to think about painting  36 Gallery, 2022

Will The Real Iris Murdoch Please Stand Up? Kingston University Archives, 2022

This Has Nothing To Do With Easter The Quakerhouse, Darlington, 2021, & 'Let us eat cake' Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, 2022

blimey! Lucretia The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, 2020

Philosophy by Postcard Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2019

The Sea, The Sea Skinningrove, 2018

Stockton Contemporary Stockton, 2018

Reading as Art Bury Art Museum, 2016

Moving Image Margate  2016

Cartography for Girls Crown Street Gallery, Darlington, 2015

Love Letter, Love Letter The Pop Up Gallery, Middlesbrough 2013

Echo & Narcissus John Rylands Library, Manchester, 2014, & Winterbourne House, Birmingham, 2012

Text & Context Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 2012

Black Prince Gray Prince We Are Open, Middlesbrough, 2012

Unfinished Business Wallington Hall, Northumberland, 2011

The Really Super Market Mima, Middlesbrough, 2007


Tyne Line of Txt Flow Newcastle, 2005

The Postal Room Weekend Waygood Gallery, 2004

Size Matters Phoenix Arts, Leicester, 2003

Seeing by Wireless Incurva Studios Hastings, 2003

Stringing a Sentence Together The Tabernacle, London, 2002