Artist Statement

Subtle intervention with found objects forms the basis of my artistic practice, where collecting and curating, casting and encasing offer ways to become familiar with both the manmade and natural world. My practice is concerned with the gravitas of objects and waste materials which are discarded or overlooked, and the paradoxes of care reflected in the fraught history and ethics of collecting, such as in the ironic instance of care witnessed in the oologist's theft of a clutch of birds’ eggs. Through the creation of pseudo-functional sculptural objects and ‘pseudo-specimens’, I question the human impulse to intervene with, preserve and possess the natural world. 

Five pieces of white polystyrene trays perpendicular on a white wall, each holding four quail egg fishing bobbers expand
Tackle (With Care), quail egg bobbers on polystyrene, 2024, (19 x 5 x 14.5cm each tray)
Four quail egg bobbers resting on a polystyrene tray attached to a white wall. expand
Tackle (With Care), detail, quail egg bobbers on polystyrene, 2024, (19 x 5 x 14.5cm each tray)
Four quail egg bobbers resting on a polystyrene tray attached to a white wall. expand
Tackle (With Care), detail, quail egg bobbers on polystyrene, 2024, (19 x 5 x 14.5cm each tray)
Four quail egg bobbers resting on a polystyrene tray attached to a white wall. expand
Tackle (With Care), detail, quail egg bobbers on polystyrene, 2024, (19 x 5 x 14.5cm each tray)
Four quail egg bobbers resting on a polystyrene tray attached to a white wall. expand
Tackle (With Care), detail, quail egg bobbers on polystyrene, 2024, (19 x 5 x 14.5cm each tray)
A silver cast aluminium sea bream and blue and red plastic strap in a white polystyrene box expand
Untitled, cast aluminium sea bream and plastic strap in polystyrene box, 2024, (46 x 34 x 25cm)
Six silver cast aluminium shards of honeycomb attached to the wall with brass hinges expand
Untitled, cast aluminium honeycomb and butterfly hinges, 2024
Silver cast aluminium shard of honeycomb attached to the wall with a brass hinge expand
Untitled (detail), cast aluminium honeycomb and butterfly hinge, 2024
Two silver cast aluminium shards of honeycomb attached to the wall with a brass hinges expand
Untitled (detail), cast aluminium honeycomb and butterfly hinges, 2024
A silver cast aluminium shard of honeycomb in a clear plastic box attached to the wall expand
Untitled, cast aluminium honeycomb and plastic case, 2024, (7 x 11 x 1.5cm)
Two clear acrylic tubes mounted on a white wall, attached by a steel bracket and mounted on a wooden shelf. Each tube contains water in which floats one quail egg bobber attached with red fishing line to a pewter lead weight expand
Half Blood Knot, quail egg bobbers, pewter casts of sea bream stomach, fishing line, steel, wood and water, 2024, (10 x 88 x 12cm)
Detail image of two clear acrylic tubes mounted on a white wall, attached by a steel bracket. Each tube contains water in which floats one quail egg bobber attached to red fishing line expand
Half Blood Knot (detail), quail egg bobbers, pewter casts of sea bream stomach, fishing line, steel, wood and water, 2024, (10 x 88 x 12cm)
Detail image of two clear acrylic tubes mounted on a white wall on a wooden shelf. Each tube contains water in which is one pewter cast attached to red fishing line expand
Half Blood Knot (detail), quail egg bobbers, pewter casts of sea bream stomach, fishing line, steel, wood and water, 2024, (10 x 88 x 12cm)
Seven mirroring sets of white plastic with extruding egg shapes, in two vertical stripes on a white wall expand
Untitled, vacuum-formed thermoplastic, 2024, (37.5 x 181 x 5cm)
A set of white plastic squares with indent and outdent of a clutch of eggs, on a white wall expand
Untitled (detail), vacuum-formed thermoplastic, 2024, (16.2 x 20 x 5cm each)
Three framed boards each covered with a board out of which dovecote/gravestone shapes have been removed to reveal the white board underneath. Some of the board is sprayed red in an abstract pattern. expand
Laid to Rest, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, laser cut board and acrylic on board, 2024, (centre 63 x 91cm, left and right 55 x 91cm)
A detail image of a framed board out of which dovecot/gravestone shapes have been removed to reveal the white board underneath. Some of the board is sprayed red in an abstract pattern. expand
Laid to Rest, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, laser cut board and acrylic on board, 2024
Three framed white boards each with a grid of wooden gravestone shaped pieces of wood. Some of the wooden pieces are sprayed red in an abstract pattern. expand
Laid to Rest, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, laser cut board and acrylic on board, 2024, (centre 63 x 91cm, left and right 55 x 91cm)
A white board with a grid of wooden gravestone shaped pieces. Some of the wooden pieces are sprayed red in an abstract pattern. expand
Laid to Rest, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, laser cut board and acrylic on board, 2024
Layers of black text backlit on tracing paper with white stitching along short sides expand
Remnant I, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, digital print on tracing paper, cotton thread, 2024, (10.5 x 14.8cm)
Layers of black text backlit on tracing paper with white stitching along short sides expand
Remnant III, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, digital print on tracing paper, cotton thread, 2024, (10.5 x 14.8cm)
Layers of black text backlit on tracing paper with white stitching along short sides expand
Remnant V, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, digital print on tracing paper, cotton thread, 2024, (10.5 x 14.8cm)
Layers of black text backlit on tracing paper with white stitching along short sides expand
Remnant II, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, digital print on tracing paper, cotton thread, 2024, (10.5 x 14.8cm)
Layers of black text backlit on tracing paper with white stitching along short sides expand
Remnant IV, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, digital print on tracing paper, cotton thread, 2024, (10.5 x 14.8cm)
A wooden kist, the lid of which is propped open with a metal rod expand
Meagre Dust: Taken At Rest, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, mouse remains, beeswax, wooden boxes, thread, enamelled copper tiles in wooden kist, 2024 (91 x 49 x 64cm)
A wooden kist, the lid of which is propped open expand
Meagre Dust: Taken At Rest, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, mouse remains, beeswax, wooden boxes, thread, enamelled copper tiles in wooden kist, 2024 (91 x 49 x64cm)
Two wooden boxes laid next to each other, they are decorated with crisscrossed white thread and blue enamel tiles. The tiles on one box display the poem 'Meagre Dust' and those on the other show the poem 'Taken At Rest'. Both boxes each have one enamel tile with the image of a bleeding hand on them expand
Meagre Dust: Taken At Rest, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, mouse remains, beeswax, wooden boxes, thread, enamelled copper tiles in wooden kist, 2024 (each box 18.5 x 9 x 6.5cm)
Two wooden boxes laid next to each other, they are decorated with crisscrossed white thread and blue enamel tiles. The tiles on one box display the poem 'Meagre Dust' and those on the other show the poem 'Taken At Rest'. Both boxes each have one enamel tile with the image of a bleeding hand on them. expand
Meagre Dust: Taken At Rest, in collaboration with Felix Charlton, mouse remains, beeswax, wooden boxes, thread, enamelled copper tiles in wooden kist, 2024 (each box 18.5 x 9 x 6.5cm)

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Image of ink on plaster portrait, titled Memory In Unfading, 130 x 130cm expand
Memory In Unfading, ink on plaster, 2023, (130 x 130cm).

Felix Charlton

School of Art Fine Art - MA (Hons)
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