Charlotte Winifred Guérard

Charlotte Winifred Guérard’s practice questions the ways in which a painting can be viewed, activated and displayed today. Her process is about finding structures or systems which allow her to experiment with her medium whilst considering space, time, performance, and movement. The themes attached to her images are influenced by her immediate surroundings, landscapes, the everyday and memory which overall makeup her ‘Dictionary of Ideas and Images’.

“In many ways, Guérard’s studio is a laboratory; a place where the artist examines and builds on her ever-expanding repertoire of images and ideas, testing the boundaries of what is possible. It’s an art of process and accumulation, a way, she explains, of thinking about the agency of painting – not only ‘how it’s behaving’ but ‘how I’m behaving’. As much as she’s immersed in the art of the past, Guérard’s gaze is fixed firmly on the future. As she explains, she’s ‘taking a very traditional medium and thinking about how it can be looked at now'”.

Excerpt from Dictionary of Ideas and Images, an Essay by Jennifer Higgie