Born in 1989, Sunderland, North East England.
Charlotte graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a First Class Honours Degree in 2013 and now lives & works in the Scottish Borders.
“My practice is an ongoing exploration into graphic surrealism, ambient clashes & sporadic outbursts! My work is experimental; I am interested in the process of painting, the material itself & the ways it can manifest but also the constraints it propagates. The imagery within my paintings is made up of motifs; semi organic marks & forms. These are like letters or symbols. They allow me to compose short sentences. They are my workings out, sums, trying to decipher and understand things, breaking large ideas into their most simplest of displays, almost into ideograms. I am in constant reflection about our place in the universe; our significance or insignificance. I enjoy trying to capture a sense of humanity in a space like void, a sense of humour in an oxygenless vacuum. Portholes of flat space & monolithic or phallic shapes regularly make an appearance within my compositions. They become methods of transportation through space and time while acting as a symbol for flesh, the soul, the human journey”.
Charlotte has exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy's Annual Exhibition and has had four solo shows to date. Other well-known galleries displaying her work include Arusha Gallery, The Biscuit Factory, Tatha Gallery, Kirkcudbright Galleries, and Upright Gallery. She has taken home a handful of prestigious awards, including The Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship, The Bothy Project Prize and The Edinburgh University Collections Prize. Charlotte was also selected for The New Contemporaries and New Scottish Artists at the Fleming Collection, London, and has been published in The Catlin Guide: New Artists in the UK. She is a professional member of the Scottish Society of Artists and Visual Arts Scotland.
