Charlie Chesterman

The work predominately engages ideas from popular culture and different philosophies, whilst satirising contemporary rituals and occurrences. I have been strongly focusing on ideas of repetition, reproduction, and recurrence and how these notions can communicate satirical and ironic concepts. In addition, ideas of contrast, polarity, and division are very important scaffolding features of my work. They are indispensable and are a function to create an inseparable parallel between composition development and my train of thought; toying with these tensions is a way of figuring out the visual schism necessary. I have always been devout to satire, I find it to be a coping mechanism which helps us deal with the most serious issues. Furthermore, I believe that satire is revelatory, thus helps us to access and restore a deeper sense of humanity.

I find myself concerned in some kind of pictorial plot; it is important to have a sense of time within the form in order to play with parody.

2017:

-MUD at Doomed Gallery, Dalston.
-LIL at Safe house, Peckham.

2018:

-I’m not here at the Camden Arts Centre.
-Untitled (Close to Now), at the Lever Gallery, Clerkenwell.
-Recent Works, at the Chelsea Arts Club, Chelsea.

2019:

-Talking Point, at the Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross.