CHARLIE CHROBNIK
My painting process acts as a system for catharsis. I focus on thematic and personal narratives that talk about an experience of loss, vulnerability, effeminacy and memory. The figures that appear aren’t necessarily portraits but stand ins of myself and loved ones in domestic environments and gardens. They lean into the surreal and dreamlike. I do this because parts of my life - my experience and particularly what has been lost - I now remember poorly but I can dream of clearly. I collage images and assemble them though the lens of longing and transformation, however my paintings become gestural, the figures and environments I paint are fragmented, they always have something missing.
Sotheby's Institute Made In Bed Magazine recently published an in-depth article on my work here
https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/emerging-artists/jmmcmjx1yvw9edviitsauisp1gu8nk
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