1st Place winner
Panoptes
DESCRIPTION
'Panoptes' is a piece from the series 'Cliché-Verres in Colour', an ongoing series of cameraless photographs by Charlotte Greenwood. Confined to her home during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, Charlotte was motivated to pursue a form of photography outside the traditional photographic darkroom. Her technique is based on cliché-verre, which combines photography with painting or drawing on transparent surfaces, such as glass, to create negatives. Each piece documents her investigation into fluid dynamics and how traditional art supplies interact and chemically react with household substances.“These entrancingly vibrant orbs look like something plucked from an alien planet” — New Scientist magazine
Artist Statement
Fuelled by my adoration for the environment, my practice explores the unpredictability and uncontrollability of nature, and often looks to find the beauty in destruction. Through my work, I present abstract macro perspectives of the natural world that offer viewers new ways of seeing and allow them to perceive micro details usually invisible to the naked eye. These perspectives push viewers to pause, question, and make sense of what they are looking at; they search for something recognisable within the visuals and in doing so, they connect with nature. My practice involves working with materials that produce uncertain outcomes, meaning each piece is created in ‘the moment’ through a process of trial and error, where fortunate strokes of serendipity are patiently awaited.
AUTHOR
BioCharlotte Greenwood is an experimental fine art photographer based in the North East of England working with both analogue and digital mediums. Originally from the North West, she moved to London in 2017 to study a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration and Visual Media at the University of the Arts London and graduated with a First-Class Honours in 2021. During the placement year of her degree, she completed an internship in downtown Los Angeles at The School of Light under the instruction of the photographer Andrew Hall, which is where her passion for cameraless photography was ignited. Charlotte has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, most notably at the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol. She was awarded first place in the abstract category of the Fine Art Photography Awards 2022 and her ongoing series, “Cliché-Verres in Colour”, was recently published in New Scientist magazine as a centre spread feature.
Statement
Fuelled by my adoration for the environment, my practice explores the unpredictability and uncontrollability of nature, and often looks to find the beauty in destruction. Through my work, I present abstract macro perspectives of the natural world that offer viewers new ways of seeing and allow them to perceive micro details usually invisible to the naked eye. These perspectives push viewers to pause, question, and make sense of what they are looking at; they search for something recognisable within the visuals and in doing so, they connect with nature. As I work with materials that produce uncertain outcomes, I create each piece in ‘the moment’ through a process of trial and error, where fortunate strokes of serendipity are patiently awaited.
