Project description

I think of my work as a 'spillage' - a world of convergence, blurring tidy categories of what we choose to publicly reveal and privately conceal. 

Using the lens, I craft pockets of blended reality, employing familiar objects in unfamiliar ways to evoke liberated worldviews. These surreal worlds offer solace, unpicking my own entanglements with control and compulsive tendencies. The constructed realities become visual representations of unfiltered humanness.

I often showcase my more seamless, constructed photographic worlds alongside lo-fi, choppy collages. Avoiding digital methods, both bodies of work instead rely on my intrigue with combining diverse textures through found images and objects. Neither format dominates; rather, they engage in an interwoven narrative, focusing on hybridisation and the push-pull dynamics of control and your inner voice.

This subtle commentary on the human condition questions our self-imposed value judgments. In a society fixated on completeness and seamless functionality, the work celebrates unbounded spaces where anything can simply be - not providing answers, but prompting reflection on our general relationship with process and outcome. Its easy to live in comfort supplied by rigid categorisations or the complete lack of them - I want to explore the nuance in that. 

black and white image of 2 fish palced on a human leg
Charlotte Buckley, 'Unknown Spill 1', (2024)
abstact colour photograph photograph
Charlotte Buckley, 'Unknown Scrubbing', (2024)
Black and White Photograph of fish and a hand in water
Charlotte Buckley, 'Unknown Spill 2', (2024)
colour photograph of eggshells, banana skin and chess board
Charlotte Buckley, 'Unknown Chess Skin', (2024)
hand holding a fish in a glove
Charlotte Buckley, 'Untitled', (2024)
red board with 3 small images/collages attatched
Charlotte Buckley, 'Pretty Hands', (2024)
Coat hanger on photo of a face
Charlotte Buckley, 'Hanger', (2024)
red glove and fish
Charlotte Buckley, 'The Fish + The Glove', (2024)