Charlie Woolley

Born 1981, UK



Woolley brings together a collection of images and objects with thematic connections. He asks the question 'what can be done with the images that we are confronted by everyday?' Sometimes this question is in response to simple desires: to chart the histories of the instruments and memorabilia of musicians ranging from bands such as Black Flag to convict blues musician Robert Pete Williams.  At other times it is in response to the flickering screens of television sets. Here they are frozen into photographs, exposing moments of beauty and technological anomaly as color explodes through the expanded pixels of black & white film stills. In other works the TV's surface sends brightly colored images into swirls of moiré distorting and disturbing the image and one’s vision.



Charlie Wooley, GJ Flag, fabric, 140 x 90 cm, 2009.