Charlie Howard [b. 1997] is an interdisciplinary artist based in London, originally from Stockton-on-Tees. Underpinned by a fascination with the relationships we maintain with synthetic objects, Howard’s work speculates on the imagined psyche of cars.
MA Contemporary Art Practice (Critical Practice), Royal College of Art, 2023
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Arts University, 2019
Charlie Howard engages with a process of writing and research that arrives at a physical conclusion, reimagining the object’s potential to be hostile, content or concerned. A reconsideration of the synthetic, discarded object is central to his work.
Recently, Howard has worked specifically with cars, speculating on them as extensions of our own bodies, psychological spaces and entities that exist in between.
The industrial backdrop of his upbringing in Teesside has fostered an interest in tangible, palpable objects and materials. The area surrounding the River Tees is peppered with the carcasses of secondary industry. An industry that is in decline, neglected by its government. This death of inanimate physical spaces has influenced Howard’s work.
