Artist Statement
Charlotte Grayland is a multidisciplinary artist and curator living and working in Cardiff, Wales. Grayland is fascinated by the process of repeatedly deconstructing personal memories. She creates a sense of presence through absence in order to form visual patterns as well as tangible objects.These objects possess an underlying sense of memento mori, acting as props created through call and response; a conversation with a past self.
She transforms these ideas through mediums such as sculpture, sound, text, painting, video and drawing; all mediums associated with her childhood. The outcomes form rhythmic entities which can be followed in sequence. Heavily influenced by communication, her practice focuses particularly on mundane occurrence and rhythmic ideas of universal action, ultimately aiming for the facilitation of shared conversation.
She is currently Curator at BayArt, Cardiff.
-
Artist amlddisgyblaethol yw Charlotte Grayland sy’n byw ac yn gweithio yng Nghaerdydd. Mae Grayland wedi’i hudo gan y broses o ddatgymalu atgofion personol dro ar ôl tro. Mae’n ceisio creu teimlad o bresenoldeb drwy absenoldeb, er mwyn ffurfio patrymau gweledol ynghyd â gwrthrychau ffisegol. Mae’r gwrthrychau hyn yn meddu ar ysbryd memento mori, dyma bropiau wedi’u creu drwy alw ac ateb; sgwrs gyda Charlotte y gorffennol.
Mae’n trawsblannu’r syniadau hyn drwy gyfryngau megis cerflunwaith, sain, testun, argraffu, paentio, fideo ac arlunio; cyfryngau sy’n gysylltiedig â’i phlentyndod. Mae’r canlyniadau’n ffurfio endidau rhythmig y gellir eu dilyn fel cyfres. Wedi’i dylanwadu’n fawr gan gyfathrebu, canolbwyntia’n benodol ar weithgarwch bob dydd a syniadau rhythmig yn ymwneud â gweithgarwch cyffredinol byd-eang, gan anelu yn y pen draw at allu hwyluso sgwrs casglebol rhwng gwahanol boblach.
Biography / CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Græg • 5th-15th April • BayArt Cardiff, Cardiff Bay.
2023 Swings and Roundabouts • 16th February-26th March • Two site show • Cardiff MADE & Oriel Y Bont, Treforest.
2022 In Pursuit of the Perfect Sound • 12th-15th October • Arcade Campfa, Queens Arcade, Cardiff
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2025 Gwneud • 7th-29th March • Penarth Cemetery Church, Penarth.
2022 Sound Performance at The Thursday Show (Hosted by Tactile Bosch) • 17th February • Shift Cardiff, Capitol Shopping Centre, Cardiff.
2021 Summer Solstice 24hr Radio Broadcast, curated by Freya Dooley • Made In Roath • 20th June
2021 Finale (CSAD Fine Art Degree Show) • 9th-16th June [Online]
2021 CSAD Flyposter Exhibition • Cardiff City Centre
2020 Gwyl Arall 2020 (x CARN) • 9th July
2020 Gwyl Y Ferch 2020 • 20th March • Oriel CARN, Caernarfon • [Online]
2020 Under-Whelmed – Over-Saturated by Robot Schnauzer • 27th–29th February • TactileBosch Lounge, Capitol Shopping Centre, Cardiff.
2020 Myfyriol • with Heledd C Evans and Gwenllian Llwyd • 11th–22nd November • CSAD Foyer, Llandaff, Cardiff.
2019 Arad Goch Launch • 21st September-10th January 2020 • Arad Goch Theatre, Aberystwyth.
CURATORIAL WORK
2026 THE HOT DOG SHOW • 17th July - 8th August • BayArt Cardiff, Cardiff Bay. • Group show featuring international artists.
2026** Return to Sender • 13th-25th February • Mentoring PAIRE Curators • BayArt Cardiff
2026 Remembering Right Now • Axis Web • Published 26 January [Online]
2025 Critical Friend Conversations (Mentoring) with Axis Web • December
2025 BayArt OPEN • 18th April - 31st May
2024 Seen and Unseen • The Welsh Group • 8th - 23rd November
2024* Contemporary British Painting Prize • 14th Sept - 19th October
2024* Au Lapin Agile • Project by Toby Ursell • 9th - 21st August
* Assistant Curator | ** Mentorship
2024 [Ongoing] The Writing Room Residency • BayArt Cardiff. • 2026 Residents - Gavrick Sawyer, Soloman Charles-Kelly, Máire Kennan, Pablo Negre • 2025 - Harrisun Scott Smith, Heledd C Evans, Louis Adams, Caitlin Davies • 2024 -Dickie Bevan
OTHER
2024 [Ongoing] Curator at BayArt Cardiff • Cardiff Bay.
2023-24 Writing Room Residency at BayArt Cardiff • December 2023 & March 2024 • Cardiff Bay.
2022 Co-Host • ‘Figuring It Out’ Radio show • Pitch Radio, Radio Cardiff.
2022 Don’t Forget to Blink • Lead Artist • Young Creatives Programme in Re-Think Space • National Maritime Museum • 25th-29th July • Greenwich, London.
2021 AXON I-VI• Studio Response Commission for CoDI Grange • October • Grange University Hospital, Cwmbran.
2021 Lead Invigilator for Art Night London 2021 • 18th June-18th July • Peak Cymru, Abergavenny.
2019 Wales in Venice Invigilation Programme • Venice Biennale • 8th July-5th August • Venice, Italy.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2021 ABF Fellowship Step Change Programme Fellow 2021-2022 • October 2021-2022
2020 Helen Gregory Memorial Trust Award
EDUCATION
2021 Fine Art (BA Hons) • Cardiff Metropolitan University
2018 Foundation in Art and Design • Hereford College of Arts