Hi there!
Charlotte Fraigneau is a visual artist using both analogue and digital photography as a lens through which we can open a conversation about mental health and global warming. She is interested in exploring our mental, physical and emotional responses to overwhelming stimuli as well as the often negative yet sometimes beautiful impact of humans on the planet.
Growing up in the Caribbean, South America and France, Charlotte developed a strong affinity for the natural world and the dramatic changes its undergoing.
“As far back as I can remember I had a camera in my hands and remember how incredible it felt to capture my first - terribly unimpressive - photographs of flowers from a disposable camera. After that, I couldn’t stop.”
Although she does enjoy working on the creation of visual projects tackling issues around mental health and global warming, Charlotte also explores a range of other artistic mediums, and enjoys learning from other artists. She likes to work with sketchbooks and enjoy the research part of a project as much as the making part of it.
In one of her most recent projects, titled Entropic Breakfast, she created and photographed an installation which included mould and Physarum polycephalum (fancy name for Slime Mould).
Currently based in Cambridge, UK, she graduated in Photography from Cambridge School of Art and was a Burberry Design Scholar at the Royal College of Art in London.
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Prizes
Shortlisted - The British Photography Awards 2021 | Fine Art category. Photograph: Under Your Roof
Shortlisted - Sustainability Art Prize 2018 | Cambridge. Photograph: Under Your Roof
Shortlisted - EIZO Student Award 2018 | Series Deluge.
Third place - Eaton Portrait Prize 2018 | Cambridge. Photograph: Drowning from the series Deluge
Third place - Queen's College Photography competition 2016 | Cambridge. Photograph: Colours of the way home
Shortlisted - Eaton Portrait Prize 2016 | Cambridge. Photograph: Uninhibited
Exhibitions
Solo exhibition - Hot Numbers Exhibition - December/January 2022 | Hot Numbers Cafe | Cambridge
Group exhibition - WIP show - January/February 2021 | Royal College of Art | London
Group exhibition - Mix it up - November/December 2018 | Gallery Re-Union | Prague, Czech Republic
Group exhibition - Free Range Show June/July 2018 | The Old Truman Brewery | Brick Lane, London
Group exhibition - Cambridge School of Art degree Show - June 2018 | Cambridge
Group exhibition - Sustainability Art Prize - April 2018 | Cambridge
Group exhibition - Eaton Portrait Prize - March 2018 | Cambridge
Group exhibition - Queen's College Photography Competition - May 2016 | Cambridge
Group exhibition - Eaton Portrait Prize - April 2016 | Cambridge
Group exhibition - Fresh Ideas - February 2016 | Cambridge
Publications
Aesthetica Magazine - Issue October / November 2018 (Link)
Amber Magazine - Issue 6 / February 2019 (Link)
Inside Artists - Issue 15 / March 2019 (Link)
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