Charlotte Miles is a British artist based in Sheffield. By combining sculpture and painting into three-dimensional moving pieces, she deliberately attempts to re-enchant the strangeness embedded in everyday life in an absurdist revolt against mundanity. Humorous scenarios are created by unconventional storytelling, fragmenting an overarching narrative into vignettes.

Drawing from Albert Camus’s philosophy of Absurdism and Thomas Nagel’s comedic remedy for meaninglessness, illogical visual imagery serves as both a coping mechanism for a futile existence and a lens through which to question the essence of reality. The genre of Fantasy and its historical legacy as a tool to navigate reality through abstraction is an excellent host for Absurdist thought and investigation.

A combinational painting style of realism and pseudo-cubism provides a grounded satire, highlighting areas of significance and generating intriguing visual dissonance. The addition of subtle recurring movement heightens references the Sisyphean and aids the blurring of the real and surreal playfully.