Charlotte Bernays: The constant state of becoming

This first major exhibition of works by Wivenhoe-based sculptor Charlotte Bernays.

Charlotte is an artist in perpetual motion. Moving fluidly between two and three dimensions, across media and materials, her practice mirrors its central subject: the endless cycle of transformation that governs the natural world.

Charlotte approaches making as an act of discovery. As she puts it: "I see the object as an event rather than a thing - a mixture of matter or anti-matter and time and movement. Thus the making process leads and the object follows and remains as evidence of activity."

Her works are concerned with form in motion and motion within form — with mass and energy, and the ceaseless drama of disintegration and reconfiguration playing out from the microscopic to the cosmic.

Deeply concerned about the environment, her work is not merely aesthetic contemplation but a response to nature's fragility, and a call to attend to the forces that sustain life.