In Episode 4 Jack talks to the artist Charlotte Bracegirdle.
Charlotte is a London based artist who works in painting and sculpture. Working with found imagery often of familiar iconography. In her work she plays with ideas of perception, how we perceive imagery and take certain iconography for granted. By carefully painting out certain areas of the appropriated image, Charlotte puts into question our preconceptions of that image. Allowing us to look more carefully at the image and in turn creating a new one, letting us fill in the blank spaces with our imagination.
Charlotte gained an MA at Royal College of Art in 2006 and BA (Hons) Degree at Southampton institute in 1997.
Charlotte has shown her work at Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London; Schneider Hall Galleries, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA; Opus Art Gallery, Newcastle; Aipad, New York; Eric Franck Fine Art, London.
Like Reece Jones and Will Martyr in the previous episodes, I’ve known Charlotte for a long time having studied with her in Southampton. We talk about how her art practice progressed over the years since graduating from Southampton including working in various studios and the move from Southampton to London.
You can follow her work on Instagram @charlotte_bracegirdle