Threshold Edition #7
I loved so well (I wrote you a love song)
Charlotte Saint Cullen
I loved so well (I wrote you a love song) by Charlotte Saint Cullen is now available to purchase through Threshold Editions. This work sits alongside Cullen’s two works exhibited in Sharp Edges: I loved so well (I’m lost but I’m hopeful), 2025 and I loved so well (I believe in life after love), 2025.
The sculpture has been made by using a plasma cutter to hand cut each individual copy of the edition from sheet steel. Each sculpture in this varied edition has its own unique form and carved marks - produced through working with a plasma cutter to cut and draw into the metal. Faux pearl earrings pierce the sculpture at different points. The molten mark making of the plasma cutter, a metalworking machine that uses electricity to melt through sheet metal, has become a signature element of Cullen’s work, bringing sculpture making and drawing into dialogue. Working with metalworking processes like plasma cutting part of Cullen’s research into the histories of labour:
The noise, dirt and physical assertion of the metal workshop
gives me a feeling of connection to past labour, this tangible link to my grandfather and uncles working at Stanton Irons works. On reflection, outside of the workshop, this can feel like dress up, something removed from the absolute cacophony, dirt, heat and physical labour of the industry. But in that space my bones feel alive to the action, I can feel the heritage of that labour living in me.
(Charlotte Saint Cullen)
Each of the 10 copies of this edition are slightly different as they are all hand cut. The three examples in the photographs above give a sense of this variation. Please keep in mind that the version you recieve may differ slightly from above examples and we hope you enjoy the surprise when you recieve your copy!
Work Details:
Title: I loved so well (I wrote you a love song)
Date: 2025
Price: £80 plus £6 carriage*
Material: Steel, faux pearl earrings, clear lacquer. Nail fixings are provied for wall installation.
Edition size: 10 + 1 A/P (artist proof not for sale)
Dimensions: 16.5cm (h) x 12cm (w) x 1.5cm (d) approx. Each copy is slighly different and size varies.
This work has been conceived as a wall piece - or it also could be leant on a shelf. The work is simple to hang on a wall - the artist requests that the work be suspended by the nails provided, through the holes formed in the work from the plasma cutting process. The work needs approx 10mm space behind it to accomodate the backs of the earrings.
Example of the edition installed on a wall:
Threshold Editions aims to be an affordable model for buying contemporary sculpture, each purchase directly supports the artist and future exhibitions at Threshold.
50% of the sale goes directly to the artist and 50% goes to Threshold to fund exhibitions and publications
*Threshold is volunteer run. Orders are processed as soon as possible, but please factor in some lead time for works to be packed and posted.
About the artist:
Charlotte Saint Cullen
Charlotte Saint Cullen is an artist, academic and organiser whose sculptural practice resonates around forms of care, healing and repair, coalescing within the legacies which make such acts necessary.
Cullen was Axis Fellow 2023-24, and Yorkshire Sculpture International Associate 2021-22. They have completed public commissions, most recently for Leeds2023, undertaken residencies, notably YYT Museum, Shanghai, China (2019) and exhibited widely including solo exhibitions with Blank_ Leeds (2022), Patriot Hall, Edinburgh (2021) and Leeds Central Library (2021), and group exhibitions including Hypha Gallery, London (2024-25), Gloam, Sheffield (2024), Leeds Art Gallery (2023). In 2023 they received funding from Arts Council England, Henry Moore Foundation, AN, amongst others.
Cullen completed their Practice-led PhD with the Centre for Sculptural Thinking at the University of Huddersfield in 2019, funded by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and University of Huddersfield scholarship. They are a lecturer in Fine Art at York St John University, where they founded and curate Vessel gallery.
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