Lim Charlotte

(b. 1998 – 2020, Singapore)

Lim Charlotte was an emerging artist whose figurative painting practice engaged with the nuances of the human condition, body, and interrelationships. Her practice sought to reinvent the motif of the human body, and the many acts of life it performs. Drawing from her personal experiences with addiction, mental illnesses, being institutionalised, and seeking solace, Charlotte’s work empathetically observes, dismantles, and relays the oxymoronic nature of being human.

Fascinated by the ephemeral beauty of the human form, Charlotte’s paintings centred on the human body as subject, each figure rendered with care, subtlety, and detail, evoking multi-layered ideas. Her investigations also extended to fundamental experiences of being human and forming relationships, exploring dichotomies such as the comfort/loneliness of being alone, the affirmation/depravity of sexuality, and the friction/desires found in intimacy. By duplicating, layering, shrouding, placing,
and posing bodies in her paintings, Charlotte explored the oxymoronic nature of the human body – tactile yet fragile, present yet absent,
scientific yet sublime.

Charlotte’s first solo exhibition, In Vain In Vanity, was held at UltraSuperNew Gallery in 2018, followed by a second solo showcase in 2019 at the same gallery, Liquid Porosity [FIRE EXTINGUISHER] garang guni buddy. She also participated in group exhibitions such as Bawa Block Party at Goodman Arts Centre in 2016, Our eyes beyond the spectacle at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore in 2017, and The New Now at Gajah Gallery that same year. She held a Fine Arts Diploma from LASALLE College of the Arts, and was awarded the ’30 Art Friends 2’ Scholarship in 2015.