Charlotte Brown’s work utilises printmaking – etching and more recently, stone lithography, cast lead sculpture and hand embroidery, to explore the weight and worth of family relationships through objects.
She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2012.
She employs traditional techniques which are often laborious and painstaking in their execution to explore themes of familial inheritance and relationships, invested objects and heirlooms, and Freudian psychologies. She enjoys printmaking as an iterative and reproductive process which reinforces ideas surrounding generational inheritance of physical traits and objects.
Recent series of prints explore anxious holding and carrying, both physical and emotional. Small found images are applied to aquatints using chine collé making each print individual. Stone lithographs depict imagery of necklaces gradually reduced to black spillages, as she re-works into the stones gradually obliterating the images with a quiet violence.