Dave Charlesworth is an artist and curator (b. Huddersfield, West Yorkshire). His mixed film and performance practice exposes fragmented personal histories and generic social phenomena as avenues to explore a range of experiences of the contemporary British landscape. Using a series of scaling devices from big to small and specific to vague, and through a constant reworking of narrative and imagery the work depicts landscape and architecture as solid features in an emotive space, often focusing upon a utilitarian manipulation of land whilst avoiding open and straightforward statement about the politics of that utilisation.
Through his curation works at Rokeby Gallery and Apiary Projects, Charlesworth has developed a series of exhibitions which take secret societies or other self organised groups as models through which examinations of collaborative practices can exist and new mediated experiences of social phenomenon can be imagined.