Gallery No.32

Charlie Franklin


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Charlie Franklin, 'Psychic Defence'. Charlie's work considers control within what she broadly descirbes as landscape. Ambiguous or empty areas that sit between wilderness, industry, recreation and agriculture. Charlie is interested in making public art that does not necessarily adhere to traditional requirements; to be anti-authoritation, temporary and materially experimental. This work is called Psychic Defence, borrowing from the visual language of the hay bale it's made of stacked bundles of recycled bubble wrap bound in pink gaffa tape. Her aim was to build a section of wall, made from bulbous forms acting as a futile barrier, a folly, or a forgotten fragment of something larger that no longer remains.

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Gallery No.32By Meg Stuart, Kieran Idle