Big Ideas for Tiny Kitchens

My research originated from a collection of handheld retro items and textiles. Using these objects has been a way of gathering thoughts and satisfying my curiosities around tactility and object making. I look at a playful way of deconstructing and assembling cuttings from second hand Australian House and Garden magazines to create illusory space. These realms feel distorted and overwhelming yet comfortably inhabitable through the description of interior furnishings and objects. Informed by 1960s hard edge abstraction and an investigation into the domestic experience through craft and sewing, my work challenges traditional representational canons and skews perceptions of familiar spaces. My paintings are also a way of investigating the formal dominance of colour and pattern which gesture to the trends and style choices of the 60s, locating my painting in a retro sphere.

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Charlotte Tatton is an emerging UK-born artist currently based in Adelaide, South Australia. Prominently working in oil paint, she focuses on capturing 20th century interiors and objects, exploring themes of domesticity, pattern and abstraction. By using collage as a drawing technique, Tatton creates compositions which play with spatiality and movement, translating them into bold paintings with a strong emphasis on colour theory.

Tatton recently completed her Bachelor of Visual Art at Adelaide Central School of Art in 2021. During her studies, she showcased her work in various student exhibitions including “Wish You Were Here” and the annual 10 x 10 exhibition at Central Gallery. She was also a finalist in the Byron Art Magazine Prize as well as receiving the Red House Group prize at the Gallery M contemporary art prize in 2022. Her artwork has been featured in Art Edit Magazine, and she has exhibited at galleries in Adelaide such as FELTspace, Adelaide Town Hall and Endspace Gallery as well as Galleries interstate including The Long Gallery (TAS) and Backwoods Gallery (VIC). Tatton has recently had her first solo show at Gallery M in Marion, South Australia.