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Studies for a Shield after Battle
Patriothall Gallery
Edinburgh
CHARLOTTE CULLEN makes work from steel and aluminium. It has sharp corners, torn edges and a bleak industrial monochrome and the rough surfaces on her assembly Studies for a Shield after Battle bear the traces of assault.
From the metal plates she makes prints — when pressed into paper, the identity of the battle reveals itself and at the centre of the show are two sequences of three small prints, each whispering the sources of her work.
Marrow I, II and III are like the random messages scratched into a school desk or a battered bus stop. It is not the content of the words that speak, so much as the invocation of a conflicted adolescence.
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