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, Madrid (commencing September).

Selected works available via The Dot Project and ABG Emerging.

For artwork licensing enquiries, please contact Bridgeman Images.

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 Drawn Together, Royal Drawing School, London, UK

2025 Cubitt Invites: Annis Harrison + Natalie Charles invite Phoebe Boswell, Cubitt Studios, London, UK

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 ABG Emerging: Collection 02, Alice Black Gallery, Online

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 + Awards

2025 Richard Ford Award (Residency at the Prado Museum), Madrid, ES

2024 Borgo Pignano, Tuscany, IT

Collections

Royal Collection, UK

Moritz/Heyman, IT

Private collections

Interviews

2025 Drawing Year Student Story