Charlie Godet Thomas

The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, no desire to express, along with the obligation to express. 1

Charlie Godet Thomas explores images and objects transforming them through the antithetical use of sculpture, installation, collage and photography. More interested in the tone of a work than confining it to a particular medium or genre, he works in a language of contradictions - humour and melancholia, the two-dimensional and the sculptural, reduction and assemblage, design and the incidental, the personal and the universal. His works, just as life is, are a product of these oppositional forces.

I translate the everyday through making, revealing that it is at once sad and delightful, “our greatest blessing and most despicable complacency.”2

Dr Melanie S J Francis, 2014

1 Samuel Beckett, from the Duthuit Dialogues

2 The artist quoting Ben Highmore, Ordinary Lives

"Midwives and morticians, paupers and princes, go about their everyday lives. Everything can become everyday, everything can become ordinary: it is our greatest blessing, our most human accomplishment, our greatest handicap, our most despicable complacency."