School of Fine Art Sculpture & Environmental Art

Charli Runcie

(She/They)

Based in Glasgow, I create textile sculptures and ephemeral pieces, which are often incorporated into costumes. My work exists in various disciplines, but is grounded in tactile and experimental creations. At the base of my work, I explore the ‘in-between’, the uncertainty, and awkwardness. Drawing from themes of girlhood and queerness, I aim to blur nostalgia with the feeling of unease. Exploring this through chewing and digesting these emotions.

 

Inspecting the process of making with a DIY ethos embedded in my process, I favour handmade techniques, the found object, and the idea of layering these aspects together. This hands-on approach allows each object to carry traces of its own making, resonating with my sense of vulnerability and transformation. Beyond my studio practice, I am actively involved in the Glasgow School of Art Students’ Association (GSASA), where I was elected Vice President in 2025.

Contact
charlotte.runcie123@gmail.com
C.Runcie1@student.gsa.ac.uk
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Works
Eat your Soup!
Hay Fever
I feel Stodgy

Eat your Soup!

I Love You, My Smelly Spoon (Big Spoon) is a sculptural piece that delves into themes of consumption—constant digestion, endless motion. Carved from wood in 2025, it playfully romanticizes the act of devouring, transforming a familiar object into a vessel for emotional appetite and physical absurdity.

Hay Fever

This work navigates the blurred lines between winning and losing, threading through themes of girlhood and a fascination with the labels and roles embedded in childhood play. It unpacks the “horse girl” archetype, exploring its ties to early identity formation and the awkward, often tender expressions of emerging femininity.

 

I feel Stodgy

I Feel Stodgy unravels sensations of being stuck—emotionally sluggish, confused, and caught in the awkward folds of self-uncertainty. The work incorporates a performative element, in which the artist becomes the room itself: hesitant, shifting, and unresolved.
Presented through stills from the 2024 performance, the piece inhabits the uneasy space between presence and paralysis.

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Stills from Performance