Charlotte Brisland
This April and May we have the wonderful opportunity to exhibit artwork by Charlotte Brisland.
As part of the Rotate programme at CourtX, Brisland's work will be on display for the next eight weeks across the Pavilion's first floor. Everyone is welcome to visit and view the artwork.
About the Artist
Charlotte Brisland graduated from the Royal College of Art with a postgraduate degree in Painting in 2004 and has exhibited in London, New York, Japan and Berlin. Brisland now lives and works in the UK and is the course leader and lecturer in fine art painting at Aberystwyth University.
The collection of work on show, titled ‘Swamp,’ includes five oil on canvas and three oil on oil painting paper paintings.
Artist Statement
Time paused, suspended in a mise en scène of unsettling silence. Desolation haunts a derelict dystopia. Isolation lurks in a post-apocalyptic world. The stage is set, a backdrop of boarded up buildings, derelict bungalows and canvas tents looms beneath charcoal clouds, hallowed rainbows and slate skies. Freeze frames of abandonment, of neglected suburbs and barren wastelands, promising a human presence but performed, on canvas, as a play with no cast. The scenery becomes a montage of memories, a collage of daydreams, where the banal and the familiar sit side-by-side with the awe-inspiring and the sublime. Sweeping strokes of colour, electric green, petroleum purple, scarlet and turquoise fuse at a distance to form an uncompromising realism. An endless emptiness, a portal, a gateway, a banishment into another world.
Written by Lily Lacey-Hastings
Curator’s Tour
We regularly hold Curator’s Tours alongside the Rotate programme.
If you’re interested in purchasing an artwork or would like to find out more information please contact the Artist directly at charlotte.brisland@outlook.com
All proceeds of a sale go to the Artist.
