Biography
Natalie Charles (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist examining personal archives and quiet intimacies. Influenced by her ancestral connections and empathy to light, she creates soft, luminous textures reminiscent of other realms. She builds worlds that evoke memory and emotion, utilising a range of approaches including drawing, painting, craftwork and animation.
Natalie is a Drawing Year 2023/4 alumnus from the Royal Drawing School and studied Illustration at the University for the Creative Arts, graduating in 2013. She was selected for RBA Rising Stars 2025, exhibiting at the Royal Over-seas League from 2 May - 22 June. Natalie is a Trustee at Packed Lunch and Content Manager for Middleground magazine.
Selected works available via The Dot Project.
For artwork licensing enquiries, please contact Bridgeman Images.
For all other enquiries, please get in touch directly here.
Image credit: Fatima Yasmin
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Education
2024 The Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School, London, UK (scholarship)
2023 The Drawing Intensive, Royal Drawing School, London, UK (scholarship)
2021 Leadership, Creativity and the Arts, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, UK (bursary)
2013 BA Hons Illustration, University for the Creative Arts, Kent, UK
Group Exhibitions
2025 RBA Rising Stars, Royal Over-seas League, London, UK
2025 Riot Soup x The Other Art Fair, London, UK
2024 Studio Show, SPACE Studios, London, UK
2024 The Drawing Year 2024 End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2024 Best of the Drawing Year 2024, Christies, London, UK
2024 Riot Soup x The Other Art Fair, London, UK
2023 SFSA Drawing Open, no format Gallery, London, UK
2022 Comfort as Routine, Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
Collaborations
2025 The Dot Project, Online
2024 Black Legacy Xchange Bazaar @ Poplar Union co-curated with Greentea Peng, London, UK
2024 Window mural and pop up shop, Shop from Crisis Elephant & Castle, London, UK
2024 The Things I Have Inside, Dulwich Festival with Packed Lunch, London, UK
Residencies
2024 Borgo Pignano, Tuscany, IT
Collections
Royal Collection, UK
Moritz/Heyman, IT
Private collections
Interviews
