Abi Charlesworth

Abi s work surrounds the ideas of object debris and mutation. In transforming the object through materials she alters the functionality and displaces the object into a new landscape. As fictionalised objects they reference the original form before deteriorating and shedding the old objects skin. Anew and functionless they roam between reality and dreams searching for shelter. Charlesworth's sculptural language is deeply rooted in peripheral object encounters where she is drawn to out of place and partial objects. As a dialogue between herself and the object she converses with the form, material and scale to unfold the objects narrative. Her more recent work explores the boundaries of silence, danger and traces. In researching around these subjects she is interested in the tension that can be held by objects and landscape.
Charlesworth is currently finishing her MFA at Glasgow School of Art and has had work shown recently in Chaos Reigns, Warehouse at David Dale Gallery and HFBK x GSA, Hamburg and GSA x HFBK, The Glue Factory, Glasgow. She has also been awarded a Gane Trust Grant Award to make new work and was funded by GSA Student association to run online postgrad critiques in 2023.