​Charlotte Tamkin is an interdisciplinary artist working with existential themes of death, loss, memory, and life. Interested in these universal experiences, her handling is philosophical and interrogative in nature, with a research-based approach. Her artworks utilise and manipulate object or entity function and purpose, both on a physical and theoretical level through the attachment of statistic, data, or fact. Works like A Candle to smell like a grave (2020-2021) and A Radiator that loses heat at the same rate a body does after death (2021) emphasise death and loss through the living experience of human interaction on a sensory level. The mundanity of the objects anchor viewers into everyday life, but also create an interwoven experience of time, connecting those that experience the work to those that have passed, and reminding them of those that will. They stage the possibility for a reflective and poetical engagement, making use of situation, place, and potentiality.
All of Tamkin's works begin as sentences, and then proceed to take on an organic evolution into different situation-led appropriate bodies.