BA Hons Creative Art(Fine & Drama)/ PG Diploma in Fine Art/ MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins
Bath Spa School of Art/ Byam Shaw School of Art/ Central Saint Martins
Cherelle Sappleton is a visual artist of Afro-Caribbean descent, working and living in London,
England. She initially started out with a performative practice whilst studying Fine Arts and Drama
jointly at Bath Spa School of Art. However after graduating and taking a break of four years, she
focussed her practice on photographic media and image making whilst undertaking postgraduate
study. Firstly studying a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art and then
an MA Fine Art Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design, which she completed in Jun 2013.
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The images I make are a surreal take on the representation of the body through photographic
media. Sometimes they are humorous, sometimes unsettling. I take pleasure in seeing the
body transformed into an uncanny form of awkward limbs and garments. My current focus is
collage, using cut outs from fashion editorials and adverts to create strange assemblages, with
the body as its central subject. The body has been an enduring interest to the artist; originally
setting out to work in performance, she used her body as material, influenced by the work of
experimental dramatists like Meyerhold, Grotowski and Berkoff. The revolutionary approaches of
these dramatists inspired the artist to abstract body, isolating parts and transforming it into an
uncanny object. Through the use of photography, her collages not only employ the flatness of
the photographic print as a distancing tool, but plays with the materiality of the medium. The body
is cut, distorted, reconfigured and assembled into absurd beings, insect like or grotesque.
