Fine Art Finalists 2010: Char Outram.

A really cool thing about this year's degree show was the amount of performance work, and although in the past at the degree show there has been some work of this kind, this year was the first time there was a designated area and time when the performances ran.
Amongst those with performance based work was Char Outram, who I have blogged about before HERE.
With a heavy emphasis on costume and character, Char created a whole other world in a corner of the studio. A place where a purple caravan spliced open and transformed into an domesticated flower print pirate ship complete with OCD housewife, pulled along by a crippled ghost of a human riding a fairground skunk. A tree strung with lights became a canope for a human teady bear hybrid, while an ice-cream eating entrail clad bride dances to the rythem of mashed up caravan cutting sounds. If you thought that sentence was a headfuck then I suppose you can only imagine what it was like to experience. OH! I almost forgot the dancing box!

The purple pirateshipcaravankitchen.

Some of Char's characters.

Since I was performing for Char (yup), I must admit I havent got very much images of her work, and certainly none that do the amazingness any kind of justice. WATCH THIS SPACE!
In the mean time, check out Char's website www.CharOutram.co.uk
Awesome!!