Meet our new Artist in Residence – Charlott Rodgers!
We’re delighted to introduce you to Charlott Rodgers, our current Artist in Residence. Charlott has joined Project Ability for a five-month residency funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities as part of her practice-based PhD.
Her artistic practice focuses on kiln-formed glass, specialising in foam glass. Often compared to the texture of an Aero chocolate bar, foam glass has a distinctive aerated structure that offers exciting creative possibilities. As there are no written manuals on how to make it, she developed her own techniques during her MFA. Today, only a handful of artists around the world work with this fascinating material.
Her PhD combines both practical and theoretical research. On the practical side, she is developing new methods for incorporating imagery into foam glass. Alongside this, her academic research explores how glass has been used as a tool for political expression, examining both artists who use glass to challenge power and historical examples of propaganda glass that promoted political messages. Ultimately, the aim is to bring these two strands together by combining her innovative foam glass techniques with politically driven imagery.
During her residency at Project Ability, Charlott has been experimenting with applying decals to foam glass, something she has never done before. She is also exploring cyanotype printing and combining it with glass processes. These experiments are opening up new possibilities for printmaking and imagery in glass.
As part of Charlott’s research, she recently travelled to the Corning Museum of Glass in the United States, where she represented Scotland in a PechaKucha presentation, sharing both her work and the exciting developments taking place during her residency at Project Ability.
Throughout the residency, she has been developing a new body of work, testing different printing techniques on glass and discovering where these experiments might lead.
We’re excited to support this innovative research and can’t wait to see how the work evolves over the coming weeks.
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