Pamela Golden: Charlie Don't Surf

Contemporary art exhibition ‘Charlie Don’t Surf’ explores generational relationships with imagery and visual culture, and considers how associations adapt over time. Golden is best known for, large-scale sumi watercolour and ink works reimagine found photographs and illustrations to embody an interrelation between past and present. Golden’s new series of paintings use photographs of American soldiers surfing during the Vietnam War as a visual reference, juxtaposed with found illustrations from retro Science Fiction. The artist explores cultural anxieties in relation to visual culture; by painting the ‘unthinkable’ – be it conflict, apocalypse or a long lost time-period. Exposing the concerns of the human psyche.