Charlotte Moore is a Midland’s based artist, who specialises in
research-based practice. Her work explores depictions of illness,
fragility and disability through portraiture, using an amalgamation of digital and traditional art mediums.
 

Her most recent series titled 'The Presence of an Absence' (2020), explores the complexities of modern medicine used to treat Epilepsy. The self-portraits explore the complications she has experienced personally regarding absence seizures and diplopia since taking the medication
Levetiracetam.
 

The chemical structure of the medication is utilised in a repetitive
nature to form the self-portraits, indicating to the audience that the
medication influences the representation of the individual, in the form
of reflex actions and their interaction with the world around them.
 

The work aims to juxtapose historical representations of Epilepsy
throughout art, alerting a 21st Century audience to the features of
Epilepsy that manifest when the seizures themselves remain
dormant.

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