Charlotte Edey’s works have a tranquil feel to them, often showing a solidarity figure in the middle of a surreal landscape—sometimes it is difficult to define up from down in these imagined spaces, and objects defy the laws of gravity. She works a lot with large-scale tapestry, and as seen here with delicate graphite pencil. Her debut solo show, Echolocation, will be opening next week at Public gallery in London. In these new works, she has created entire environments from feminine iconography. “Employing organic symbolism and the traditionally gendered mediums of embroidery, weaving and textile, the fabric of the worlds is shaped and informed by the idea of femininity and how it intersects with the multiple facets of identity,” she says. “Anthropomorphic landscapes and atmospheres punctuated by curls and waves speak to expanding beyond the body.”
