Biography
Natalie Charles (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist examining personal archives and quiet intimacies. Moving between drawing, painting, craftwork and animation, she explores the impact of overlooked moments through family stories, collected objects and her ancestral connections. She builds soft, luminous worlds that invite the viewer to reflect on their memories and emotions through hers.
Natalie is a Drawing Year 2023/4 alumnus from the Royal Drawing School and a Trustee at Packed Lunch. In 2025, she was selected for RBA Rising Stars, the Delphian Gallery Open Call and the Richard Ford Award, a funded residency at the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Selected works available via The Dot Project and ABG Emerging.
For artwork licensing enquiries, please contact Bridgeman Images.
Image credit: Fikayo Adebajo (@fikayoadebajo)
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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
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Delphian Gallery Open Call 2025 Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London, UK
Islands in the City (Gallery OCA x ROSL Arts), Royal Over-seas League, London, UK
Subvert Your Gaze to Meet Mine, Twilight Contemporary, London, UK
Drawn Together, Royal Drawing School, London, UK
Cubitt Invites: Annis Harrison + Natalie Charles invite Phoebe Boswell, Cubitt Studios, London, UK
RBA Rising Stars, Royal Over-seas League, London, UK
Riot Soup x The Other Art Fair, London, UK
2024
Studio Show, SPACE Studios, London, UK
The Drawing Year 2024 End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London, UK
Best of the Drawing Year 2024, Christies, London, UK
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
Clay Totem workshop for RIOT SOUP x The Other Art Fair, London, UK
Clay Totem workshop for Twilight Lates x Dazed Club, Twilight Contemporary, London, UK
ABG Emerging: Collection 02, Alice Black Gallery, Online
The Dot Project, Online
2024
Black Legacy Xchange Bazaar @ Poplar Union co-curated with Greentea Peng, London, UK
Window mural and pop up shop, Shop from Crisis Elephant & Castle, London, UK
The Things I Have Inside, Dulwich Festival with Packed Lunch, London, UK
Residencies + Awards
2025 Richard Ford Award (Residency at Museo del Prado), Madrid, ES
2024 Borgo Pignano, Tuscany, IT
Collections
Royal Collection, UK
Moritz/Heyman, IT
Museo del Prado Archive, ES
Private collections
Press
2025
LivingEtc cover feature via The Dot Project
Sky Portrait Artist of the Year Season 12 Trailer (featured at 00:37)
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