Full Throttle

Charley Peters is a London based artist, writer, and independent curator. She makes paintings where abstract language and contemporary screen aesthetics collide, remixing familiar motifs from art history, retro gaming, TV and the Internet on works on canvas, walls and in public spaces. 

Alongside a suite of paintings on canvas are a number of painted objects - traffic cones and chain barriers - both of which appear as props to navigate and crash through in the game Driver to add drama and excitement. They “acknowledge the sculptural potential of painting where most of what we experience is non-physical and seen on a screen.” (3) A new series of hand painted vintage floppy discs and 3D prints of pixelated stars further reinforce the relationship between the analogue and digital in Peters’ work and the spatial potential of the painted surface, creating an interplay between flatness and sculptural form.