Lot 145 - Cecilia Charlton - Woven Portal (Portal 2)
Pencil, coloured pencil and cotton thread on paper
2023
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
This auction is raising proceeds for The Hepatitis C Trust
ARTIST INFO
About
London-based American artist Cecilia Charlton received a BFA Painting in 2015 from Hunter College in NYC, and an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 2018. She creates hand-made embroideries and weavings that engage with the formal histories of abstraction to explore a broad range of themes including the cosmos, memory, and current events. Through manipulations of geometric pattern and colour her artworks achieve an optically challenging and playful approach, questioning the hierarchy between painting and textiles. Themes of feminism, human history, time and transcendence are inherently part of the hand-sewn work, and her investigation into the history of textiles from creative, cultural, and socio-economic perspectives underpins Charlton’s studio practice. Spanning the mediums of textiles, installation, and art in the social sphere, the work results in conversation tending towards both the personal and the universal.
Education
MA Painting, RCA (2018); BFA Painting, Hunter College (2015)
Select Exhibitions/Awards
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Altered Sites: On Psychedelic Architecture, West Dean College, West Dean UK
Memory Garden, Garden Museum, London UK (solo)
COLLECT Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, Somerset House, London UK
Syzygy, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK (solo)
2022
Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open, Jerwood Arts (London), Newlyn Art Gallery (Newlyn, Cornwall), Aberdeen Art Gallery (Aberdeen, Scotland)
COLLECT Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, London
2021
Mammoth Loop, SPACE Ilford, London, sponsored by Mercers Charitable Foundation (solo)
Love Token, Robert Young Antiques, London (solo)
Folk Art, London Art Fair, Platform, Candida Stevens Gallery, London
2020
Aurora, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK (solo)
Hanging by a thread, freethegallery, London
When you make sense I feel, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2019
In Praise of Shadows, curated by Ione & Mann, London
Parade, Broadway Gallery, curated by Kris Day, Letchworth Garden City UK
Domestic Hospitality, Zetter Hotel, London
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of the Arts, London
Tender Touches, AMP Gallery, London
Grid :: Preset, Blyth Gallery, London
2018
FAKERS, curated by Cypher Collective, Thamesside Gallery, London
Lifeline as Medium, 532 Gallery, NYC
STUDIO.US is an Experiment: Mix.B, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
From This Time - Unchained, curated by Ione & Mann, London
Rogue Objects, Bloomsbury Festival, University College London, London
Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Unit 3 Projects, London
COUPLES, The Hand, Brooklyn NY
SURGE: the East Wing Biennial, Courtauld Institute, London
RCA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
Rubber-chew // Clink, adieu, Unit 1 Gallery, London
An Audience of Echoes, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
Plants People Pots [an invitation], Pinch Project Space, London
Selected Honors
2022 Brookfield Properties Craft Prize, short-listed
2021 Jerwood Arts, Jerwood Makers Open Award
2020 Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award, short-listed
2016 Fulbright UK Open Award, short-listed
Gallery Representation
Candida Stevens Gallery
Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Lately, I have been thinking of my artworks as portals. Not only for the viewer but also for myself to fall into during the process of making. Using artwork to access a transcendental space; utilizing colors, materials, and process to experience the sublime.
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