8/4/2023 0 Comments Ulorin vex emilie autumn![]() ![]() I definitely put a lot of myself into it. ![]() I feel like a lot of my work is somewhat self-indulgent, that I’m trying to share things about myself, the way I think and other aspects of my personality that I’m often unable to share in other ways due to a frustrating and often crippling problem with anxiety and communicating with people. Primarily, what do you want viewers to understand from your artwork? It seemed to well represent many of my interests, including a focus I had at that time on slightly morbid medical themes such as amputated limbs, needles and wounded eyes. I was so enamoured by the story at the time that I decided to use a play on the name of one of the characters, “My Lady Charlotina”, also know as the Eternal Concubine. I was reading Micheal Moorcock’s “Dancers at the End of Time” trilogy, still some of my favourtie books. It was back around 2006, I think, when I finally plucked up the courage to start sharing my artwork online more and decided I wanted to have it represented as a different part of me, rather than under the alias that was already fairly well known as a model. The Malady Charlotina persona actually has a fairly straightforward explanation (unlike poor Ulorin Vex, who gets asked that question so often and has no exciting or interesting story to tell!). Why did you choose Malady Charlotina to represent the creator of your art? ![]() If we focus in on the art, ‘Malady’ itself means a disease or ailment. Maybe I just like to give names to different aspects of myself, sort of like the different characters I play! I guess that’s part of the reason I chose Malady Charlotina to represent my artwork, in order to keep it somewhat separate from my modelling persona. I like to keep the 2 identities somewhat separate, as representations of different aspects of what I do. I just needed a screen name and had several people tell me that it was better as a performer to use a pseudonym or stage name rather than use your legal name online, to avoid the risk of stalkers! Nowadays I’m not really bothered about having my legal name online, though I prefer to have it used more in conjunction with my art and illustration work rather than my modelling work. I created my first alias, Ulorin Vex, over 10 years ago when I was fairly new to the internet. You go under the alias Malady Charlotina as an artist, which mirrors some of themes from the modelling under your other alias Ulorin Vex why have these alias? ![]() We got in touch with her to find out more about her and her artwork. She has appeared in numerous fashion shoots, joined singer Emilie Autumn’s stage performers the Bloody Crumpets for her European Asylum Tour, and modelled for the likes of Westward Bound, Cyberesque, FairyGothMother and BibianBlue. She completed a BSc (Hons) degree in Natural Sciences, and filled with an interest for something different she decided to pursue a career as an alternative model. Born in England, Christiane grew up with her twin sister in Newcastle near the famous Hadrian’s Wall. Within a whirlwind of performances, adventures and photo shoots – her stage name Ulorin Vex has become well known around the world – she is also Malady Charlotina, artist and painter. Christiane Shillito is a woman with many different layers. ![]()
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