CHARLOTTE CULLEN
Artist and researcher Charlotte Cullen creates environments grounded in the land, working through sculpture, installation and text. Scavenged and ephemeral materials entwine with formal material enquiries in metal and clay. Site is enacted as geological space for excavation, symbiotic (un)learning, resistance and healing. Intergenerational trauma, sickness and the body are manifest as material, physical encounters.Cullen’s sculptures enact warriors in retreat during battle, seeking safety and a place to heal from the ground, to take respite so to fight again. The work is weed like, finding methods and materials from the ground to build and restore as intuitive gesture. Twigs become additional limbs, protruding from a metal vertebrate to make new appendages, clay is dug from the ground to heal wounds, while broken materials from man-made waste create hybrid new attack strategies in the warrior’s arsenal.
Retreat of the Warrior (Latent Extinction) II
Study for a Shield After Battle
Guard of the Watergate (remnants to their body over seas) I, II, III, IIII
Retreat of the Warrior (Bones of the Waterhorse) II
Retreat of the Warrior (Bones of the Water Horse) I
Untitled (study for a shield after battle)
Study for a Shield After Battle
2020
Aluminium
100 x 70 x 10cm
£650 (pair)
Guard of the Watergate (remnants to their body over seas) I, II, III, IIII
2020
Steel, wood
Dimensions variable
£500 (each, wood not inc.)
Retreat of the Warrior (Bones of the Water Horse) II
2019
Mild steel bar and tubing, clay fired and unfired, mud collected from river bank fired and unfired, collected foliage, pvc tubing, cable ties, calming essence lotion.
200 x 300 x 200cm
£1,450
Retreat of the Warrior (Bones of the Water Horse) I
2019
Mild steel bar and tubing, pvc tubing, clay fired and unfired, collected twigs, salvaged foliage, cable ties, mud collected from river bank fired and unfired, plastic four pack ring, calming essence lotion.
60x 90 x 30cm
£900
Retreat of the Warrior (Latent Extinction) I
2019
Mild steel bars and tubing, clay unfired, mud collected from a river bank unfired, pvc tubing, discarded foliage, broken glass collected after a car crash, soil, egg shells, stones and pebbles, calming essence cream.
130 x 110 x 100cm
£1,200
Untitled (study for a shield after battle)
2020
Salvaged tin, coated aluminium, aluminium, wood.
Dimensions variable
£40 - £80 (wood not inc. various hand drawn plasma cut metal sculptures)
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