Charlotte Miles (b.1996) is a British artist from Sheffield, combining both sculpture and painting. In her practice, she creates absurd imagery to confront the existential themes of loneliness and mortality by utilising the techniques and methods of storytelling.

 

Drawing from Albert Camus’s philosophy of Absurdism and Hélène Cixous’s proposition that fantasy acts as preparation for death, Charlotte finds that illogical visual imagery serves as both a coping mechanism and a lens through which to question the essence of reality.
 
Her fascination with the absurd manifests in her artworks’ humorous combinations of imagery, referencing historical events and fictional stories, puns and satire. Currently, Charlotte’s practice revolves around painted wooden figures transformed into three-dimensional moving sculptures. The use of subtle movement, often in an unsuspecting way, aids the blurring of the real and surreal in a playful manner.