Spanning photography, performance, and video, Charlie’s practice explores masculinity, myth, and the rituals of identity. Heavenly Bodies is a study of the fluid nature of self— a reflection on the roles we inhabit, the personas we construct, and the emotional landscapes we navigate. Charlie through the queer lens, hones into the fundamental tension between Paganism, which sees the cosmos as sacred and spiritually animated, and Darwinism, which views it as a product of impersonal natural forces, highlighting our ongoing struggle to find hierarchical meaning in a universe that is either divinely ordered or evolutionarily indifferent. Connecting to our contemporary societies pastiche of information structures, often in conflict, to find meaning of self outside of canon or defined definition- to be uncategorised in a data driven world.

This exhibition also looks ahead to Charlie’s inclusion in the 56th Rencontres d’Arles (France) with ‘Warakurna Superheroes’, a collaboration withTonyAlbert and the children ofWarakurna.With a 17-year practice, Charlie’s works are held in major national collections such as the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art and Parliament House, NSW.