Charlotte Dawson / Bound to Fade
Bound to Fade
2026
Archival Inkjet PrintEdition of 20 (+3AP)
Paper: Marrutt Fine Art Production 316gsm
Paper size: 420mm x 297mm
£50 (+p&p)
Free collection available from Newcastle upon Tyne or Sheffield.
Bound to Fade was made specially for the group exhibition RELAY [02] at Platform A, Middlesbrough and is included alongside related recent works Just Passing (2022) and Just Passing (2026).
Through making this limited edition print, Dawson reprises a central motif found in recent work - a small bunch of artificial flowers - to symbolise loss, absence and care. To arrive at this image, she combined analogue processes of chemical bleaching with digital manipulation to create a soft, subtle print that speaks to the love, devotion and pathos, which underpins this body of work.
Her new stitch works, Just Passing (2022) and Just Passing II (2026), respond to a chance encounter with, and subsequent return to, the site of a roadside memorial. Artificial flowers are bound to a lamppost with cable ties, replaced, bleached, and renewed. Rendered in stitchwork, the work references the traditional craft technique and aesthetics of church kneelers, present in more formal sites of devotion. The work captures the careful maintenance and layered history the found memorial holds, responding with a reciprocal act of care and devotion.
Charlotte Dawson (b. 1997) is an artist working across object-based practice and installation, based in Sheffield, UK. Her practice is influenced by the materials and objects found in public and shared spaces alongside objects that reference collective experiences. Her practice is primarily concerned with the implementation of commonplace objects as vessels for memory. Including concepts of souvenir-hood and collections and the utilisation of objects in the formation of social histories and the individual.