Virtual studio | Charlie Fitz Artist

Sep 12, 20231 min read

Ampersand X Photoworks Residency

At the beginning of the year I was chosen to be the 2023 artist-in-residence for Ampersand X Photoworks at Wigwell Lodge. The residency took place from February - June 2023. During my time at Wigwell Lodge I began a project I am very excited about. I am working on this project at a crip time pace, but some of this project will be showcased on the Photoworks' website later this year.

During the residency director Piotr Sell created a wonderful artist video about my partner Oscar Vinter and I, which can be viewed below.

Charlie Fitz

Dec 7, 20221 min read

Tactile Experiments

Recently I have been thinking about how to bring the various threads of my creative practice together.

When I first became ill, I started using painting as a therapeutic practice.

Then as my illness worsened, particularly my spine instability and I was mostly confined to a bed, my creative practice became almost completely digital, as working digitally was more accessible to me at that time. So my digital collage and film work developed. Since having two neurosurgeries, I am able to sit up more often and I would like to bring these mediums together.

I am currently thinking about how to make my digital collages, film and photography work more tactile. I have been looking through Gerhard Richter Overpainted photographs, in which he adds abstract painting on top of photographs in order to give the photos a 'presence'.

I have an idea for a short film piece made with photographs, similar to Chris Marker's La Jetée. I would use personal and public archival images and I could edit the images with paint and textiles.

I have begun experimenting with paint and photographs.

Charlie Fitz

Nov 15, 20221 min read

Slow street photography

Updated: Dec 7, 2022

Virtual Studio Update

Oscar is the street photographer in our relationship. I prefer planned portrait photography to street photography, because I can be slower and get the image I want.

But occasionally I see a composition in the world that connects with me.

I will post some of them below, with suggested names.