Charlotte Haywood

Charlotte Haywood lives on Bundjalung Country in Northern NSW. She is an experimental interdisciplinary artist working across the senses. 

She has cultivated a highly collaborative and process-driven practice that is dedicated to eco aesthetics and the nurturing of biodiversity; as the variety of life and ideas. 

Haywood is a master weaver. She experimentally trades between the tactile and the digital, form and phenomena- working across textiles, sculpture, installation, experimental architecture, public art, film, theatre, sound, music, flavour, linguistics, community and ecologies. Her performative practices and embodied materials can vary from hybrid architectural forms to the ancient technology of tapestry weaving in a symbolic un-weaving and reweaving of interrogated histories and land management practices, cultural botany, ecological restoration, gesture as language, synaesthesia, national community interdisciplinary-craft-geometry-science-environment networks, data as flavour, community cookbooks, creative disaster recovery, sonic weaving and evolving multi-narrational video works. 

She is committed to seeking new depths of site-specific response, creative collaboration and community engagements. She has worked cross-culturally; interdisciplinary and collaboratively in remote and regional Australia, Vanuatu, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Peru and Mexico. 

A rogue artist, she has emerged primarily from self-led enquiry, immersion, international residencies, interdisciplinary collaborations and time honoured with intergenerational master craftspeople, practitioners, linguists, activists, “ecologists”, philosophers, singers, gardeners, cooks… and thinkers. Those that have complex everyday experiences of their “art” or practice; entwined with the crafting of their daily lives as undulating offerings to their community and the living planet. 

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