Caught Between Worlds | Peter Doig’s 'Charley’s Space' and 'Snowballed Boy'

Executed in the early 1990s, these works — offered in London on 6 March — realise Doig’s concern with how ‘one fictionalises actual experience’. Katharine Arnold, Director of Post-War and Contemporary Art, illuminates a blizzard of memories.

The Scottish-born artist Peter Doig moved with his family to Canada — from Trinidad — when he was seven years old, where the vast white winter landscapes made an immediate and lasting impression on him. After moving to London at the age of 19 to attend art school, he began transposing his memories of his adolescent, snow-infused years onto canvas.

Canada loomed large in Doig’s imagination at this time, yet not merely as the repository for a set of personal memories. ‘Canada came to embody the idea of looking back: the sensation of being caught between worlds, real and remembered,’ says Katharine Arnold, Director of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s in London.

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