Charlie Osborne

Charlie Osborne is an artist based in London, who works across video, performance, music and writing. Through fictioning and fracturing, Osborne’s projects share clues to an aftermath. Using structure systems similar to poetry, works are presented through sensations of a never-ending-performance. Characters are charged with a distorted sense of familiarity whereby theatricality within the hyper-real comes into play. Stylistically, Osborne's ideas collapses and collides genres: shock rock, rom-com, horror, musical. The performance dips into sentimentality only to coat it in sensationalism, using horror aesthetics as both styling and strategy. Construction—both literal and narrative—is central to the work. Charlie uses structure not as a container, but as a dramaturgical device: an ambitious, deliberately unstable plot that operates more like a vignette or a conspiracy theory. The piece becomes an essay-concert, part demonstration, part poetry-reading, part trailer, part pop-song. In essence, Osborne's practice is a performance about performance—genre-swerving, self-aware, and suspicious of its own storytelling. It asks the viewer to surrender to confusion, longing, recognition, and discomfort—all at once.