MY ART
Everything holds life-force, energy and potential. I work with the memory held in remnants of the dead, the forgotten, the discarded and the rejected . I honour these memories through acknowledgment, then use the past as a foundation for new directions and realities.
Mixed Media with roebuck skull, antique glass eyes and Turkish ‘eye’ beads for warding off evil.
Essays and Articles by Charlotte Rodgers. Art by Roberto Migliussi.
Getting Hands on with Blood, Bones and Fur.
Interview with Ron Athey.
Sabbatical: Bridget Jones of the Left Hand Path
The Face in the Mirror: A Quest for Knowledge and Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel.
Limited edition, 2014. Published by Roberto Migliussi.
Mixed media with crab and lobster shells, glass beads and ermine tail. Photographed by Gerard Hutton.
Mixed media with metal, thrush wings, and a crystal stand. Photographed by Gerard Hutton.
Cheaper as a pair because they do like each other's company. Photographed by Gerard Hutton
Mixed Media with beads,rusted antique coffin handle and crow. Mounted on heavy rusted metal base.
Photographed by Gerard Hutton.
Mixed Media with Glass Beads, Rusted Coffin Handle, Thrush and Blackbird Claws. Mounted on a solid rosewood base. 20cm long X 13cm wide X 9cm high. Photographed by Gerard Hutton.
Mixed media with snail shells, sacred seeds, antique prayer beads, deer vertebrae, rams horn and glass beads.
Mixed media with sheep’s jawbone, shells, beads and a trilobite. This piece is inspired by the legendary Hand of Glory which was created using the hand of a hanged criminal and was supposed to grant various powers including those of invisibility. My variant is made with a sheep’s jaw for a more compassionate sort of illumination.
Mixed media with beads, broken jewellery and a very old upper part of a human skull, this piece is inspired by old religious reliquary and the Tibetan Kapala/skull cup..
A presentation memorial clock from the 1950’s that was found it a charity shop, this piece (before I reimagined it!) was originally given as a retirement award to someone for working fifty years in an upholstery store.
Reclaimed by nature, the lost time is captured in shells that all travel inwards and outwards if you follow their spiral, and if you listen carefully to the rushing sound the shells contain, you can hear the story of not just one life, but of many.
Mixed media with beads, coral (white and red), amber (white and golden), seeds from a mala, and bone from an antique necklace. This was created during the coronavirus lockdown. When I started on the sculpture I had no end result in mind, only various thoughts that I wanted to incorporate protective substances such as coral and amber and create something that would embody the word ‘apotropaic’. After finishing I realised I had made something that was essentially channeled- an interplay of light and dark- if what is feared is embodied, to a degree, it can be worked with and overcome.
Created during the coronavirus lockdown, this piece is about active progression, consolidation of resources and protection. Mixed media with hagstone, bone, nettle and rusted nail.
Mixed media with shells from vintage necklaces, seeds from antique prayer mala, trading beads, horn and glass beads.
Created to give strength and awareness and to consolidate, focused and progressive change.
Providing grounding and a foundation for progressive movement. Mixed media with glass beads, vintage metal beads, silver beads and seeds.
Entwined dance of light and dark, conducted and grounded energy. Mixed media with beads, seeds and silver.
Mixed media with bone, antique jewelleries which include 1920’s Venetian glass, and Art Deco vaseline glass and turquoise. The stand is vintage, hand carved ebony.
Mixed media with a vintage (replica) medical model of a skull, rare vintage corals, shells and vintage glass beads mounted on a vintage wooden silk spool.